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VI. DlASPIDIDAE Acutaspis perseae (Comstock, 1881)* — Geneva, 1.11., Philodendron laciniatum, female, male, larvae, F=2 (4351); Geneva, 19.1., Nidularium innocenta, female, male, larvae, F=3 (4355); Geneva, 19.1., Aechmea nidularioides, female, male, F=3 (4356); Geneva, 19.1., Wittrochia amazonica, female, F=3 (4357); Geneva, 19.1., Vriesia inflata, female, male, F=2 (4358). Aonidia lauri (Bouché, 1833) — Lugano (outdoors!), Laurus nobilis, on the leaves, female, larvae, F=3 (4227). Aspidiotus nerii (Bouché, 1833) — Locarno, 8.8., Nerium oleander, on the leaves, female, F=l (4225). Diaspis bromeliae (Kerner, 1778) — Geneva, 19.1., Nidularium innocenta, female, F=l (4355). Epidiaspis leperii (Signorét, 1869) — Lugano, 8.8., Aesculus hippocastanum, on the bark, female, F=4 (4229). Furchadaspis zamiae (Morgan, 1890) — Geneva, 19.1., Cycas circinolis, female, larvae, F=2 (4354). Gymnaspis aechmeae (Newstead, 1898)* — Geneva, 19.1., Aechmea nidularioides, female, F=4 (4356); Geneva, 19.1., Wittrochia amazoniae, female, male, F=l (4357). Lepidosaphes ulmi (Linnaeus, 1758) — Locarno, 8.8., Salix sp., on the branches, dead female, eggs, larvae, F=4 (4224). Leucaspis pusilla Low, 1883 — Locarno, 8.8., Pinus sp., on the needles, female, F=2 (4226); Lugano, 8.8., Pinus sp., on the needles, female, F=3 (4228). Pseudaulacaspis pentagona (Targioni-Tozzetti, 1886) — Montreux, May 1937, Persica vulgaris. The species was collected by E. E. Green and it was the first record in the region of Lake Geneva (deposited at the British Museum). Rhizaspidiotus bivalvatus Goux, 1937* — Lugano, 8.8., Festuca sp., on the roots, female, F=l (4230). Acknowledgements — The authors would like to thank the Swiss Federal Research Station for Fruit-Growing, Viticulture and Horticulture, Wadenswil, and the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA No. T 12980) for financial support, J. Martin and J. Cox (London) for their help in consulting the collections of the British Museum, S. Fischer (Nyon) for providing his collection of scale insects, L. Rézbányai-Reser (Lucerne) for his important suggestions on our work and P. Solymosi (Budapest) for identification of some plant species. REFERENCES Baggiolini, M., Guignard, E. et Bioesch, B. (1993): Foyers de cochenille du mûrier, Pseudaulacaspis pentagona TARG. (Homoptera, Diaspididae), observés dans la région de la Cote lémanique. — Rev. suisse Vitic. Arborée. Hortic. 25: 161-165. Borchsenius, N. S. (1949): Pseudococcidae. — In: Fauna USSR, vol. VII, n.s. no. 38. Akad. Nauk., Moskow-Leningrad, 382 pp. Danzig, E. M. (1980): Coccoids of the Far East USSR. Nauka, Leningrad, 367 pp. Danzig, E. M. (1994): Zur subalpinen und alpinen Schildlausfauna (Homoptera, Coccinea) der Schweizer Alpen. — Mitt. Entom. Gesellschaft Basel 44: 45—48.
