90 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



NEW COCCID^ FOUND ASSOCIATED WITH ANTS. 



BY GEORGE B. KING AND T. D. A. COCKERELL. 



[The species described below were all collected by Mr. King. The 

 notes on the microscopical characters were prepared by Mr. King, but 

 have been extended and rewritten from Mr. King's mounts by Mr. 

 Cockerell, who is also responsible for the comparisons with allied species. 

 The notes on the living insects, habitat, etc., are all by Mr, King.] 



Lecanopsis lineolatce, n. sp. 



$ (cleared and mounted). — Oval, length somewhat over 2 mm., dermis 

 practically colourless, legs and mouth-parts tinged with sepia, anal plates 

 a warm yellowish-brown, quite a different colour from the legs. The 

 mouth-parts inclined rather to a madder-brown. Legs and antennae 

 small, hind legs not nearly reaching the anal plates, tip of femur of middle 

 legs reaching extreme base of hind legs. Posterior cleft wide. Antennae 

 fairly stout, gradually decreasing in size distad, 8-jointed : 3 longest, not 

 quite twice as long as broad ; 2 and 4 next, and about equal ; 5 and i of 

 about equal length, but i much broader than long, 5 longer than broad ; 

 then the last three subequal, but 8 the longer. Formula 3 (24) (15) 8 

 (76): 8 with several small hairs. Anterior tibia and tarsus as long as 

 antennal joints 2 to 6, the tarsus about half as long as tibia ; femur very 

 stout, not as long as tibia on its inner side, but a little longer on its outer; 

 trochanter and coxa both very large. The legs are altogether noticeable 

 for their stoutness, but the basal parts are especially enlarged. Claw 

 large, moderately curved, digitules of claw stout, extending beyond its tip; 

 tarsal digitules filiform, all but two broken off in the specimen. The claw- 

 digitules are enlarged at ends to an obliquely truncate club, but the tarsal 

 digitules with only an excessively minute club. There is the usual long 

 bristle at the tip of the trochanter, and a short erect hair a little way 

 up the femur on the inner side. Anal plates rather broad, the caudolateral 

 side a little longer than the cephalolateral ; a large bristle near the tip and 

 another at the extreme base ; these bristles are very large, and may 

 possibly be dermal, beneath the plates ; especially as there is a corre- 

 sponding pair on the skin laterad of the plates, that opposite the hindmost 

 bristle being considerably shorter than it. Hairs of anal ring broken, but 

 apparently they were stout and not numerous. Skin without any distinct 

 markings ; marginal spines fairly large, pointed, simple, easily deciduous, 

 a very little further apart than the length of one. Stigmalal spines in 

 threes, one long, two much shorter but not very short. 



