10 SJOSTEDTS KILIMAND.TARO-MERTJ EXPEDITION. 1 2: 1 . 



(Fig. 3) with many minute hairs; upper digitules apparently absent, lower pair short, 

 slender; but they are often broken away. Anal ring (Fig. 4) normal. Anal lobes 

 (Fig. 4) broadly rounded, apex with a few slender but relatively long hairs, base with 

 a group of minute spines (Fig. 4 a); there are also similar groups of spines on the 

 margins of the succeeding abdominal segments. Mentum bi-articulate, apical segment 

 much attenuated, tip with several (? 10) hairs and two long slender, curved, spines. 



There are two pairs of occular-shaped glands (>cicatrices>): one pair anterior, 

 the other pair posterior (Fig. 4b); the lunular shaped plates to (peritremes) these 

 organs are furnished with spinnerets and slender, curved, spines (Fig. 4 b). 



Length 3, 60 4 mm.; width 2,25 3 mm. 



Kilimandjaro: Kibonoto. Under bark, accompanied by small black ants (Phei- 

 tlole inegacephala FABR.). 



This remarkable incect has some characters (external form, the arrangement 

 of the bands and patches of cereous matter, and groups of spines) which associate 

 it with the old genus Coccus, in fact it looks very like a small and partly denuded 

 example of the cochineal insect; but these characters are more or less superficial 

 and do not warrant its inclusion in this group. The Dactylopiinid characters un- 

 doubtedly predominate and agree best with the -genus Ripersia. The white cereous 

 matter is easily deciduous and may account for the inconstancy of the banding, 

 but when present it gives the insect a very characteristic appearance. 



Gen. Saissetia (Lecaninin) Deplanclies (1865). 



FAUVEL, Bull. Soc. Linn. Norm., IX, p. 127. 



Saissetia oleae BERN. 

 Mem. d'Hist. Nat. Acad., Marseille, p. 108 (1782). 



A number of examples, all females. This cosmopolitan species has been recor- 

 ded from South Africa, and has been received recently from Western Africa. The 

 specimens from Kilimandjaro are the largest the author has yet seen; but in other 

 respects they are quite typical. 



Kilimandjaro: Kibonoto. 7. IX. 05. On the branches of Ficus sp. 



January 1908. 



List of Coc('i(la liitlierto known from tlio Kilimandjaro-Meru 



district. 



1. Monoplebus Sjostedti NEWST. n. sp. 5. Dactylopius coccineus NEWST. n. sp. 



2. pallidus NEWST. n. sp. 6. Ripersia anomala NEWST. n. sp. 



3. Walkeria africana NEWST. n. sp. 



4. Stictococcus multispinosus NEWST. n. sp. 



7. Saissetia oleae BERN. 



