Maskell. — On Coccididae. 21 



Female of the second stage dull-yellow, convex or sub- 

 globular, slightly elongated. Length about ^^vn. 



Larva yellowish, flat, active ; length about ^-^\n. Form 

 distinctly Lecanid, the abdominal cleft clearly noticeable, and 

 the lobes not extending beyond it : the lobes bear long setae. 

 Margin of body minutely serrulate, and bearing several fine 

 hairs. Antennae of seven joints, of which the third is the 

 longest. Feet normal ; digitules line hairs. The anal ring 

 bears several hairs. 



Male pupa enclosed in a small greyish-white subcylindrical 

 very closely felted sac, one end of which is closed by a thin 

 glassy plate or operculum in whicli there is a small orifice 

 simulating the abdominal cleft of a female ; length of sac 

 averaging about yV^^- These sacs are frequently clustered in 

 great numbers on a twig quite apart from the females. 



Adult male unknown. A single male pupa was observed 

 which had died just on the point of emergence : as far as could 

 be made out the antennee would have ten joints. 



Hah. In Australia, on Acacia armata (from the late Mr. 

 Crawford) ; on Acacia calamifolia and Acacia longifolia (from 

 Mr. French). The sj)ecimens from Melbourne are darker in 

 colour than those from Adelaide. Mr. Crawford, in a memo- 

 randum attached to one of his drawings, says that the species 

 is very rare about Adelaide : but I imagine that it must be 

 fairly plentiful elsewhere, from the number of specimens which 

 I have seen. 



This is another of the insects in the collection of Mr. 

 Crawford, who, at the time of his finding it, not being then 

 well acquainted with Coccid classification, attached to it the 

 name of Cryptes haccata. The females, at first sight, have 

 very much tire appearance of Kerines ; and when I so informed 

 my friend he changed the name to Kcrmes maskelli, under 

 which, I believe, it has since remained in the Adelaide 

 Museum. But the specimens received last year from Mr. 

 French enabled me to examine a large number of larvae, and 

 these are so evidently Lecanid that it is impossible to include 

 the insect among the Kermitidce. It is therefore here attached 

 to Lecaniuvi, and the original specific (and very apt) name 

 given to it by Mr. Crawford has been restored. It will belong 

 to that series of the genus, Signoret's sixth, which includes 

 L. emerici, Planchon, and L. racevwsus, Eatzeburg, from both 

 of which it differs sufficiently. 



There is an American insect, Kcrmes cjalliformis, Eilcy 

 (" American Naturalist," vol. xv., p. 482) which, to the naked 

 eye, resembles L. baccatum. But, apart from the fact that 

 K. galliformis is seen under a lens to be speckled with black, 

 and has also usually distinct rows of black spots, it must be 

 assumed (although no description of the larva is given) that in 



