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above and yellow below, with eight black tubercles in a double line above 

 the base of the leg. Metathorax with a black, spot on the stigmatal line. 

 Abdomen yellowish below and white above, with eight black tubercles in 

 a double line above the base of the leg on each normal segment. A black 

 spot on the stigmatal line of each segment except the tenth, and a dark 

 clouded area connecting the dots of adjoining segments. Clouded area 

 absent between the dots of the eighth and ninth segments. 



Legs gray, with the following parts white : an oblique suture on the 

 first segment, the whole second joint and the third and fourth below. 



Remarks. — The larvae feed on the flowers of the plant, stripping the 

 racemes of the blossoms. In habits they are gregarious, and when the 

 blossoms are consumed the larvje migrate to the leaves and there complete 

 their development. When feeding on the leaves the larvae change from 

 the light colour of the time of flower feeding to a dark greenish-slate. 

 This is caused by the food showing through their thin skins. Cocoons 

 are of dark silk, single, and spun beneath the surface of the soil, larvae 

 entering the ground last of June. 



THREE NEW COCCID^ FROM BRAZIL. 



BY T. D. A. COCKERELL, N. M. AGR. EXF. STA. 



leery a ( Crypticerya) Hempeli, n. sp. — 9 . Exposed on bark, sub- 

 globose, much like a very large /. I'osoe. Length 8, breadth yi^, height 

 5^3 mm.; dark slate-gray, with a thin but rather dense coating of cream- 

 coloured mealy secretion. Subdorsal areas marked by a longitudinal 

 series of small round spots free from secretion. Legs piceous or dark 

 brown. 



Boiled in liquor potassa;, stains the liquid bright pink. Antennae 

 and legs after boiling pale reddish-brown. Antennas small and short, 9- 

 segmented, formula approximately (2i9)(345678), the segments bracketed 

 being subequal in length : i nearly twice as broad as long ; 9 short and 

 broad, inversely heart-shaped. Legs small but stout, femur fullv twice as 

 thick as tibia ; tarsus not quite half length of tibia ; claw large, moderately 

 curved. Skin chitinous, very strongly so at the sides, remaining deep sienna- 

 brown after prolonged boiling. There are numerous small glands, which 

 in the less chitinized parts are situated on chitinous patches, the skin 

 between these patches being free from coloured chitin. Towards the 

 sides these patches coalesce, and the whole surface becomes reddish- 

 brown, with the gland-orifices showing as clear dots, There are also 



