SJOSTEDTS KILIMANDJARO-MERU EXPEDITION. 12:1. 



Sub. fam. Dactylopiinae. 



Gen. Dactylopius ' TARG. 



Mem. Soc. Ent. Ttal. (1867). 



Dactylopius coceinens n. sp. 



Fig. E, 13.- Female adult. Subfusiform ; venter low convex, dorsum highly 

 convex but tapering towards both extremities. Dull yellow or straw coloured, with 

 orange-crimson above divided at the articulations with the paler colour. The crimson 

 colour is however, sometimes entirely absent. Derm (Fig. 1 a) rather thickly studded 

 with slender spinose hairs and small irregular spinnerets, the latter somewhat irregular 

 in outline. Antennae (Fig. 1) of eight segments, of which the eighth is as long as 



Fig. E. Dactylopius forrinriiK. 9 ai ' : 1 antenna; 2 anal lolie and anal ring; 3 anal ^cicatrice 



2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 together; all the segments with fine short hairs, and the last two 

 with short, slender, curved spines. Mentum bi-articulate, apical segment with many 

 slender spinose hairs. Legs stout; tarsi almost as long as the tibiae. Anal lobes 

 (Fig. 2) prominent, each with a single long bristle, and numerous small spinose hairs 

 as on the rest of the derm. Anal orifice normal. Dorsum with two pairs of very 

 large eye-like glands ( cicatrices ) equal in width to more than one third the length 

 of the antennae; the first pair near the margin behind the eyes, the second pair 

 (also near the margin) on the third segment from the apex of the abdomen. Length 

 l,5o 1,76 mm. 



WESTWOOP. FERNAI.U Call. Corddae of the World, ji. iHi 



