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J^ESCRIPTION OF A NEW LAC-COCCID (GENUS 

 TACHARDIA) FROM NEW SOUTH WALES. 



By Walter W. Froggatt, F.L.S., Government Entomologist. 



Tachardia angulata, n.sp. 



Adult 9- Height, 4 mm.; diameter at base, 4 mm. 



General colour bright red, apex shining, anal appendages and lac- 

 or air-tubes tipped with black. Cephalic portion flattened, rest- 

 ing against the bark of the stem of the food-plant, irregularly 

 wrinkled, with the mouth in the centre, lobed on either side. 

 Anal tube projecting, fringed with a tuft of fine bristle-like hairs, 

 with a fine spine standing out above the anal tube. Lac- or air- 

 tubes longer and more slender than the anal tube, situated on 

 either side, and projecting well beyond the lobed margin. General 

 form cone-shaped, rounded at the apex. 



Wax-test enclosing 9 dark red to black in colour, broad and 

 rounded at the base, coming to a blunt point at the apex, when 

 viewed from above it is seen to be fluted, with four distinct 

 ridges meeting at the summit. Outer surface smooth, with fine 

 white filaments curling out through tiny apertures in the walls of 

 the test. In general appearance resembling a large blunt rose- 

 thorn; sometimes solitary, at other times in groups of three or 

 four, in contact at the base. Height of test ^ of an inch; diame- 

 ter at base 4 of an inch. 



Z^a6.— Eden, N. S. Wales, Reah River (Mr. G. J. Darke); on 

 quince trees : Milton, N. S. Wales, also on quince trees. 



