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NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COCCID^, EX COLL. W. W. 

 EROGGATT, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW 

 SPECIES. No. i.^ 



By E. Ernest Green, F.E.S., Government Entomologist, 



Ceylon. 



(Communicated hy W. W. Froggatt, F.L.S.) 



(Plates xvi.-xvii.) 



Chionaspis FORMOSA, n.sp. 

 (Plate xvii.) 



Male and female puparia often disposed in stellate groups on 

 the surface of the leaves, as depicted by Maskell for his Mytilasjns 

 Jormosa. 



9. Puparium snowy white : 1st pellicle yellow: 2nd pellicle 

 reddish. Secretionary area smooth; usually broadly dilated, 

 sometimes narrower and more elongate. Long, 2-50 to 3 -50 mm. 



(J. Puparium (fig. 5) much smaller and narrower. Feebly tri- 

 carinate; the median carina distinct, the lateral carinse obsolescent. 

 Long, 1*50 mm. 



Adult 9 (fig. 6) narrowed in front, broadest across median 

 abdominal area. Margins of segments well demarked. Many 

 small spinnerets and a ventral group of small conical spines on 

 the lateral area of mesothoracic and subsequent segments. A 

 diffuse transverse dorsal series of conspicuous sharply-pointed 

 spines with broadly dilated bases (fig. 7) at the junction of the 

 pro- and mesothoracic segments : and two small groups of 3 or 

 4 similar spines on the venter, immediately behind the meta- 

 thoracic spiracles. Pygidium broadly rounded ; with a wide 

 median cleft. Median lobes only represented (fig. 8), widely 



* For an earlier paper, under a slightly different title, see p. 559 of the 

 Proceedinos for 1900. 



