NEWSTEAD, COCCIDJE. 7 



Antennae (Fig. 2) short, stout, and about one third the length of the legs; the 

 third segment the longest, its articulation with the fourth segment faintly indicated ; 

 first segment very wide; hairs short, slender, but there is at least one spinose hair 

 on the apical segment, Legs long, slender: claw (Fig. 3) strongly falcate; digitules 

 simple. Derm of the upper surface densely clothed with long barbed spines (Fig. 5); 

 the longest being about three times the length of the antennae; interspersed between 

 the long spines are some minute simple spines, spinose hairs, and numerous circular 

 spinnerets (Fig. 5). Derm of the venter with a few minute spines, spinose hairs, and 

 a large group of circular spinnerets (? circumgenital glands) on the last abdominal 

 segment surrounding what is probably the genital orifice, though its true character 

 cannot be determined. Anal ring normal, oval in shape, and highly chitinised ; 



Fiir. D. Stirl 



i)>iiJti*/>h/i'>xiix. $ ad.: 1 dorsal: 2 antenna: ?> tarsus; 4 derm.; "< dorsal spines. 



upper valvular sclerite ovate, with three spinose hairs ; lower valvular sclerite cre- 

 scentic with 910 spinose hairs. Mentum monomerous, short, rather pointedapically. 

 Length 2 2,50; width 1,76 2 mm. 



K/Iititiindjaro: Kibonoto, 25 VII 05. 



Dr. SJOSTEDT is to be congratulated on the discovery of this highly interesting 

 and remarkable insect. It is clearly distinct, and the forest of long spines with which 

 the dorsum is clothed together with the singular arrangement of the bare band-like 

 tracts on the dorsum are quite unique. 



COCKERELL (I. c.) has placed this genus in the Lecaniinae, but having made an 

 extensive examination of both S. Sjoxtedti and S. rmdtispinosiis I have come to the 

 conclusion that this genus is more correctly placed in the Margarodinae I have re- 

 cently stated my reasons for this change in a manuscript already prepared for publi- 

 cation elsewhere. 



