XEWSTEAD, COCCIDiE. 



Kiliinandjaro: Steppe, Ivirarägua, on Acacias. April 1906. 



This small species with its rather prominent anal lobes somevvhat resembles a 

 Ripersia but the number of antennal segments precludes its admission to this genus. 

 Its fusiform shape, the large »cicatrices». and the orange-crinison colour may also 

 serve to distinguish it. No trace of cereous secretion was observable, but this may 

 have been dissolved in the alcohol. 



Fig. F. Ripersia nnonuda, § n^'- 

 ginal spines; 4 h curved spines on firatrice. 



nnteniia; 3 tarsns: 4 anal niai' 



sroup of niar- 



(leniis Ripersia Sign. 



Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5), V, p. 335 (1875). 



Ripersia anomala n. .sp. 



Fig. F., 1 — 4. — Adult lemale (Fig. 1) «hört ovate, slightly narrowed in front, 

 highly convex, the oldest examples being almost hemispherical; venter concave, seg- 

 mentation strongly pronouuced, e.specially so at the margins. Pale ochreous-brown ; 

 dorsum with irregulär interrupted bands of short, dense, white, cereous matter; in 

 some individuals the two broad cephalic and the first abdominal bands of secretionarv 

 matter, although irregulär in outline, are continuous; in other examples the bands 

 are all interrupted so that they appear as median and lateral, elongated patches. 

 Some individuals are also mide or practically so, possibly due to abrasion. Demi 

 practically covered with minute circular spinnerets interspersed with minute short 

 spinöse hairs. Antennae (Fig. 2) of six segments, the apical one the longest, the 

 fourth and fifth shortest; all the segment with fine short hairs. Legs stout; tarsi 



Sjüitedls Kilitnandjarn- Meru Expedition. 12. 2 



