Maskell. — On Coccididae. 211 



Hob. In Australia, on Orchid sp., Tweed Eiver ; speci- 

 mens sent by Mr. Koebele and Mr. Olliff. In Ceylon, on 

 " cultivated fern " ; specimens from Mr. E. E. Green, through 

 the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



The resemblance between this and Signoret's species is so 

 close that I do not hesitate to identify it as such. The charac- 

 teristic features of the female are the reddish-brown puparium, 

 the extreme smallness of the two abdominal lobes and the 

 smallness of the pellicles. The male (now for the first time 

 discovered) is remarkable for its small size and for the two 

 digitules of the foot : I am obliged to Mr. Green for drawing 

 my attention to this character. The species is very near to 

 C. thcce, Mask. (Indian Museum Notes, vol. ii., p. 60), differing 

 chiefly by the greater proportional length and more solid texture 

 of the male puparium. 



Chionaspis citri, Comstock. 2nd Cornell Eeport, 1883, 

 p. 100. Maskell, N.Z. Trans., vol. xvii., 1884, p. 23. 

 Mr. Koebele brought to me from the Island of Tonga, 

 South Pacific, some twigs of Citrus thickly covered with this 

 species. I had already reported it as occurring in New Zea- 

 land. I observe that the aborted antennae of the adult female 

 of C. citri are rather more conspicuous than in other Diasjndi- 

 nce, and each of them bears two rather strong, curved, short 

 setae. The " ridge " on the puparium mentioned by Comstock 

 is not well marked in these Tongan specimens ; nevertheless, 

 as the pygidium of the female (a much more important 

 character) is identical, I do not hesitate as to the species. Mr. 

 Olliff has sent me a twig of " mandarin orange " from Sydney 

 covered with hundreds of males and a much smaller number 

 of females ; and in these last the ridge is conspicuous. 



Chionaspis eugeniae, Maskell. N.Z. Trans., vol. xxiv., 1891, 



p. 14. 



I have received from Mr. French some insects which I con- 

 sider as only a variety of this species. They resemble the 

 type in all characters, except that the abdominal margin bears 

 more spines — seven or eight at each side instead of four, and 

 in one specimen examined ten on each side. Possibly also the 

 pellicles are of a deeper orange colour, but that is of no im- 

 portance. 



Hab. On Eucalyptus, var. sp., Goulburn, Victoria. 



Genus Fiorinia, Targioni-Tozzetti. 



Fiorinia camelliae, Comstock, 1880. Uhlcria camellia, 

 Comstock, 1883. 



I reported this insect last year (vol. xxiv., p. 16) as oc- 

 curring on palms in Australia. Since then I have obtained 



