INDEX TO HOST PLANTS OF SOFT SCALES OF FLORIDA ABELIA SP. Ceroplastes floridensis Comstock (Florida wa scale) Coccu hesperidu Linnaeus (brown soft scale) Ceroplaste floridensis Comstock (Florida wax scale) Coccus hesperidum Linnaeus (brown soft scale) AsUS rE CATR. U L ,,. p u -. scale) ACACIA AURICULIFORMIS A. Cunn. ex Benth. (eartree, ear-leaf acacia) Cocus longulus (Douglas) (long brown scale) ACALYPHA SP. (copper leaf) Coccus hesperidum Linnaeus (brown soft scale) scale) black scale) Saissetia oleae (Oliver) (black scale) ACALYPHA HISPIDA Burm (chenille plant) [= Sl49 q. 4 ?-l-f-s- A kI iII 11 1L 1s 1) 1 1 k [iA. tricolor] Coccus hesperidum Linnaeus (brown soft scale) ACANTHUS MOLLIS L. (artist's acanthus) Saissetia coffee (Walker) (hemispherical scale) ACER SP. (maple) Ceroplastes ceriferus (Fabriius) (Indian wax scale) Ceroplastes floridnsis Comstock (Florida wa scale) Mesolecanium nigrofasciatum (Pergande) (terrapin scale) Pulvinaria acericola (Walsh & Riley) (cottony maple leaf scale) Pulvvnaria innumerabilis (Rathvon) (cottony maple scale) Salssetia oleae (Olivier) (black scale) ACER BARBATUM Michx. (Florida maple, southern sugar maple) [ =A. floridanum] Ceroplastes floridensis Comstock (Florida wax scale) ACER RUBRUM L. (red maple) Ceroplastes ceriferus (Fabricius) (Indian wax scale) Ceroplastes cirripediformis Comstpock (barnacle scale) Ceroplastes floridensis Comstock (Florida wax scale) Coccus hesperidum Linnaeus (brown soft scale) Meuolecanium nigrofasciatum (Pergande) (terrapin scale Protopulvinaria pyriformis (Cockerell) (pyriform scale) ACER SATCHARINUM L. (silver maple) Pulvinaria innumerabilis (Rathvon) (cottony maple scale) ACER SACCHARINUM L. silverr ( maple) Ceroplastes flordensis Comstock (Florida wax scale) Pulvinaria innumerabilis (Rahvony) (cottony maple scale) ACMENA SMITHI (Poir.) Merrill & L. M. Perry [PEopuglina Spifris C ACER SACCHARINE WRIGHTIer (weeping maple) Ceroplast floridensis Comstock (Florida wa scale) Pulvinaria acericola (Walsh & Riley) (ttony maple leaf sale) SI I I h1,1 -, 1- -i C, ,IUSTCHUM S L. (sae p pn) [ =Eugenia Smithii] Protopulvinaria pyriformis (Cockerell) (pyriform Sa a oeae (ler) ( scale) Ceroplast esfloridensis Comstock (Florida wax scale) ACORUS GRAMINEUS Air. 'Variegatus (grassy- Saissetia coffee (Walker) (hemispherical scale) C ... .. .,- -in .. ........ -l ,- J scale) ACROSTICHUM SP. (swamp fern) Coccus hesperidum Linnaeus (brown soft scale) ACROSTICHUM AUREUM L. (leather fern) C ,. L.I- .- -: -'L 1 (- 1- I, .,) Saissetia coffee (Walker) (hemispherical scale) ACROSTICHUM DANESFOLIUM Lang)d. & FisTh. (leather fern) Coccus hesperidum Linnaeus (brown soft scale) Saissetia cuffeae (Walker) (hemispherical scale) ADENANTHERA PAVONINA L. (red sandalwood tree) Saisetia oleai (Olivier) (black scale) ADENIUM OBESUM (Forssk.) Roem. & Schult. (desert rose) [-A. arabtcum] Coccus hesperidum Linnaeus (brown soft scale) Saissetia eoffeae (Walker) (hemispherical scale) ADHATODA SP. [See ]USTICIA sp.] ADIANTUM SP. [maidenhair fern) Ceroplaxtes floridensis Comstock (Florida wax scale)