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hundreds, all very lively, and changing the appearance of the 

 ■white ovisac with red eggs into a seething mass of brown crawl- 

 ing insects mixed with whitish egg-shells. From the immense 

 number of these larvee, w-hich left scarcely any unfertile eggs, 

 I concluded that in all probability direct connection with the 

 male had been effected in the adult stage of this female. 



The larva of M. craivfordi is reddish-brown, elongated 

 oval, active, segmented : length about -^^in. : there is a slight 

 whitish meal on the dorsum. In a live specimen there are 

 usually some long, very slender, hyaline marginal hairs, which, 

 however, seem to be very brittle. Antennas of six joints, of 

 which the first and sixth are thick, the rest slender ; the 

 first five are subequal in length, the sixth much larger, as 

 long as any two others, club-shaped, and bearing several hairs, 

 of which one, not at the extremity, is very long. Feet long 

 and slender : the tibia and tarsus thin, and the tibia is scarcely 

 longer than the tarsus ; claw slender, with two short fine 

 digitules springing from small tubercular bases. Mentum 

 apparently dimerous. Body covered with great numbers of 

 cylindrical tubular spinnerets, interspersed with circular com- 

 pound spinnerets and with spiny hairs : from these tubular 

 spinnerets on the margin spring the long hyaline hairs men- 

 tioned above. Anal tubercles small, each bearing a long, 

 rather strong, seta. 



The general appearance of this larva and the forms of the 

 feet and antennas approach much more nearly to Iccrya than 

 to either CcBlosto7na or Leachia. I regret very much that the 

 want of appliances rendered it impossible to keep the larvas 

 alive and to watch their metamorphosis, as observation of the 

 second stage of Monophlcbus is very desirable for comparison 

 with the other genera. 



Group BEACHYSCELID^, Schrader. 



In the Journal of the Entomological Society of New South 

 Wales, 1863, Mr. H. L. Schrader published a description of 

 soine new species of Coccids, seemingly all found on various 

 Eucalypti, and differing a good deal from known genera, prin- 

 cipally in their habit of forming large and strangely-shaped 

 galls on the food-plant. A subsequent, and apparently nearly 

 identical, notice by the same author appeared in the same year 

 in the Transactions of the Zoolog.-Botanische Gesellschaft, of 

 Vienna. Dr. Signoret included these species briefly in his 

 " Essai." I have been able to procure Schrader's German 

 paper, but not his Sydney one ; and I regret that in the 

 synopsis of groups and genera of Coccids given in my " Scale- 

 Insects of New Zealand " a page containing this abnormal 

 group dropped out in the printing. 



Schrader's descriptions are exceedingly imperfect, and are 



