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NOTES ON THESUR-FAMTLY liliAC IJYSC ELINyE WITH 

 l)ES(^IMI>'ri()NS OF NKW SPTXM FS. — Fakt TV. 



r>v Wai/pku \V. I<'iu)<i(;A'i"r. 



(Plato XIX.) 



In't'oi-c (It'sci-il)iiii;- several new siKH'ics obtained (liii-iiit;- last year, 

 T propose to rectify some ei'roi's in my previous papei-s on tiui 

 i^all-makini:; eoi'cids with regard to tiieir classilication. 



In liis last eonti-il)ution to the study of the family Cocclda'* 

 Mr. Maskell, when dealing with the nomenelatun^ of the sul)- 

 families, formed tlio sub family IdlococcitHV for th(^ n^'option of 

 his j^-enera. Sp/nrrococctis, Ci/fiiidrocorcus, and Frrtirhii(. Many 

 memluM's of tlic above "^onera form ri'^ular j^alls, but others only 

 waxy tests, while none of their <!;alls are of the Holid woody con- 

 sistency of those of the I hachyscelid coccids; and the female 

 coccids themsehes (hirer stiaicturally from the femah^s of the latter. 

 The Fucaly[)tus-<,Mll coccids consisting of Schrader's three genera 

 Brachyscelis, Opislhoscelis, and Asceiis coming into the sub-family 

 BrachynceHna: form another very natural group of tlu^ family 

 Cocci da'. 



When re-describing Opisthoscelis suhrofurida, Sell., in my earlier 

 paper t, 1 stated that the larva had tarsi terminating in two 

 claws, which, as Mr. Maskell has pointed out, would remove them 

 from the Coccifce into the fainih' Psi/llldcv; what T mistook for 

 the second claw, J find upon more careful examination to be the 

 lower digitule, appendages like tine spines springing from the 

 extremity of the tarsi. 



* Maskell, Trans. N.Z. Inst. Vol. xxv. p. 2.S6, 1892. 

 t NotcB on tho Family Brachyscelidte, P.L.S. N.S.W. (2 8er ) Vol. viii., 

 p. 209, 1893), 



