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Notes: Scale insects (Coccoidea) are discuseed on pages 416-422. The species are: Palmaspis phenicis (Ramachandra Rao), Phoenicococcus Marlatii Cockerell, Parlatoria blanchardi Targioni Tozzetti, and Dysmicoccus brevipes (Cockerell).