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narrowing to a fine thread and opening by minute-oval pores upon the 

 dorsal surface. Spinnerets conspicuous in some specimens, in others not 

 visible or extremely inconspicuous. 



Adult male not known. Habitat, on bark of (?). 



Morganella Maskelli (CklL). 



Very commoiron guava. Tahiti. 



C/irysompkalus aonidum (Linn.). 



Moderately abundant on- guava. Tahiti. 



Lepidosaphes Beckii (Newm.). 



Very abundant on orange and lemon trees. 



Lepidosaphes Gloverii (Pack.). 



A very abundant scale on cocoanut trees. 



Parlatoria cinerea, n. sp. (Fig. 9.) 



Female pnparium : Circular, slightly convex, pale brownish-gray, 

 paler at margin. Pellicles overlap- 



Tahiti. 



Tahiti, Morea, Tetioroa. 



ping, yellowish-brown, submarginal. 



Male puparium : Elongate, semi- 

 transparent, pale brownish - white. 

 Pellicles at the anterior extremity ; 

 brown. 



Adult female : Rounded in front, 

 slightly pointed behind ; broadest 

 across abdominal segments. Abdo- 

 minal segments moderately distinct, 

 colour dull brown. 



Pygidium with six prominent, 

 strongly - chitinized lobes. The 

 median lobes largest, broad at the base, with the inner sides nearly 

 parallel ; a single notch on the inner, two notches on the outer margin. 

 Second pair of lobes rounded at the posterior end, the outer margin slanted 

 with two, usually distinct, notches ; the inner margin straight. Third 

 pair of lobes resembling the second, but much shorter. Fourth lobe 

 occasionally developed into a weakly-chitinized crenate projection. 

 Depressions between the lobes strongly chitinized. Two chitinized 

 depressions between the third and fourth lobes. 



Two plates between the median lobes, not noticeably fringed ; two 

 between the first and second lobes, three between the second and third. 



Fig. 9. — Parlatoria cinerea. 



