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experience only upon this species ; they vary much in size, as also 

 does the female coccid. Last March I found large numbers at 

 Sutherland, the Opisthoscelis growing upon E. capitellata close by. 



ASCELIS SCHRADERI, n.sp. 



9. Gall an irregular rounded blister J inch in diameter, two 

 lines in thickness, forming a cavity or blister in the centre of the 

 leaf ; pale yellow to reddish-brown ; apical orifice small, cylin- 

 drical on the upper side of the leaf, the anal appendage filling up 

 the orifice but not coming to the surface of the leaf. 



^. Larva pale yellow, flat, round, with the abdomen coming to 

 a point at tlie tip ; eyes round, wide apart, with an angular mark 

 behind them and a similar mark below at the junction of the 

 abdomen and thorax ; abdominal segments narrow, but sharply 

 defined ; antennae very short ; legs rudimentary. 



The larvae at this stage have left the female gall and are half- 

 buried in the young leaves ; the leaf tissue apparently grows over 

 them, as perfect galls very little bigger than the coccids are 

 numerous on the leaves. 



9. Coccid pale yellow, 2-3 lines in diameter, an irregular wrinkled 

 the rounded mass without any vestiges of legs, antennae, or eyes ; 

 anal appendage more slender than in A. pnemolliSj surrounded 

 with a similar band or ring at the base, and truncate at the tip, 

 without the finger-like appendages, and apparently solid, not 

 tubular. 



(J. Larva pale yellow to bright crimson, the antennae 4-jointed, 

 short and stout, coming to a point at the tip, situated on either 

 side of a projecting angular forehead in front of the eyes, the 

 latter small and globular, placed behind the base of the antennae, 

 wide apart ; the body swelling out behind the eyes and tapering 

 down to the apex of the abdomen ; legs short, slender, covered 

 with short hairs, and terminating in two finely hooked claws ; 

 abdominal segment and outer margins of the others rounded and 

 fringed with fine hairs, with fine hairs upon the lower half of the 

 segments. 



(J. Coccid diflfering in no distinctive character from that of the 

 previous species. 



