16 Transactions. — Zoology. 



low power or a lens. The male puparia are frequently placed 

 transversely, not, as usual, longitudinally, on the leaf. 



Genus Fiorinia, Targioni-Tozzetti. 

 Fiorinia acacise, sj). nov. Plate I., figs. 15-17. 



Female puparium really yellowish and thin, but seeming 

 thick and intensely black from the black second pellicle, which, 

 as is usual in the genus, almost entirely occupies it, and is 

 larger than the enclosed female ; elongated, narrow, convex, 

 the sides roughly parallel. The larval pellicle is terminal and 

 dark-brown, and as it is apparently the only one visible the 

 puparium might be mistaken for that of some male Coccid 

 until the large black second pellicle is noted. Length of 

 puparium about -rrVin. 



Male puparium white, cottony, elongated, narrow, with 

 parallel sides, and with a distinct median longitudinal carina- 

 tion. Pellicle terminal, brown. Length of puparium averag- 



ing TyVn. 



Adult female dark-brown, elongated ; abdominal extremity 

 truncate, with a single median floriated lobe ; margin crenu- 

 lated, and having on each side two deepish curvilinear in- 

 cisions ; four or five longish fine spiny hairs on the lateral 

 margin. Spinneret-groups five ; upper group with 3 to 6 

 orifices, laterals with 6 to 8. A few single spinnerets. 



Adult male unknown. In a large number of puparia ex- 

 amined there were dead pupaj which appeared to offer no 

 special characters. 



Hah. In Australia, on Acacia injcnantha. My specimens 

 were sent to me in 1890 by the late Mr. Crawford, of Adelaide. 

 The pieces of bark forwarded were covered with numerous 

 male and female puparia. Specimens also lately from Mr. 

 French, on the same plant. 



This species seems to be clearly and markedly distiiict. 

 The very black second female puparium and the form of the 

 female abdominal region are differentiating characters, espe- 

 cially (in regard to the last) the single median lobe. The 

 puparia, as in C. nitida, are frequently placed transversely on 

 the twig. 



Fiorinia camellise, Comstock. 



I have specimens which I believe to be certainly of this 

 species from Australia, on Livistonia and other palms, sent to 

 me by Mr. French. The puparia are dark-yellow, with a 

 longitudinal ridge sloping on each side to the margin, and the 

 abdominal extremity agrees nearly with Comstock's descrip- 

 tion. The type of the species occurred, as Professor Com- 

 stock states, not only on camellias but also on palms in the 

 conservatories at Washington. 



