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SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES ON THE COCCIDyE OF CEYLON- 



By E. Ernest Green, f. e. b., 

 Entomologist to the Government of Ceylon. 

 Part III. 



{With Plates H—K.) 



Since the earlier appearance of my " Supplementary Notes " in this 

 Journal (Vol. XIII, Nos. 1 and 2), a fresh mass of material has been 

 accumulate 1, necessitating a further series descriptive of new species of 

 Dispidince from Ceylon. Nor can it be supposed that the supply is yet 

 exhausted, although the original number of species recorded in my 

 monograph has now been more than doubled. Large areas of the Island 

 still remain unexplored (as regards CoecidcB) and new species are 

 frequently discovered even in the best worked localities, as may be seen 

 from the frequency with which the name " Peradeniya '* appears in the 

 following pages. 



Genus ASPIDIOTUS. 

 Aspidiotus longispinus, Morgan. (PI. H, fig. 1.) 

 Aspidiotus longispina, Morg., Ent. Mo. Mag., XXV., p.. 352. 

 Morganella longispinus, Ckll., Bull. 6, Dep. Agric. (1897). 

 H'emiberlesia longispinus, Leon., Riv. Pat. Veg„, vi. (1897). 

 Morganella maskelli, Ckll., Bull. 6, Dep. Agric, p. 22 (1897). 

 $ Puparium black, circular, moderately convex, dense and usually 

 more or less obscured by fragments of bark. Diameter 1*10 mm. 

 $ Puparium not observed. 



Adult § subcircular, the pygidium only slightly projecting beyond 

 the general curve. Colour whitish ; the chitinous parts stained a deep 

 brown. Pygidium (fig. 1) with two rather narrow prominent conver- 

 gent median lobes almost or quite contiguous. Margin on each side 

 fringed with numerous narrow elongate squames, some of them deeply 

 fimbriate, others obscurely so. Spines deep black, stout, long and whip- 

 like, projecting far beyond the squames. No circumgenital glands. In 

 all my examples the terminal half of the pygidium is densely chitinous 

 and deep coloured, obscuring all pores and other characters. Diameter 

 0*50 to 1 mm. 



Adult $ unknown. 



Habitat. — In Ceylon, beneath loose bark on stems of the " Jak" tree 

 ( Artocarpus integrifolia). The scales are frequently embedded in th» 

 loose tissues of the cortex. (Peradeniya.) 



