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Mesoscutum moderately setose. Each axilla with two rather 

 strong, black setae; each parapsis with three or four similar setae. 



Fore wings slightly but plainly infuscated and finely and densely 

 ciliated. Marginal vein longer than the submarginal ; stigmal shown 

 in Figure 135. 



Measurements in mm. : Length 1.10. Scape 0.1480 long by 0.0312 

 wide. Pedicel 0.0520 long by 0.0280 wide. First funicle joint 0.0712 

 long by 0.0296 wide ; second 0.0648 long by 0.0296 wide ; third 0.0584 

 long by 0.0368 wide. First club joint 0.0560 long by 0.0440 wide; 

 second 0.0488 long by 0.0424 wide ; third 0.0520 long by 0.0360 wide. 

 Fore wings 0.84 long by 0.38 wide. Marginal vein 0.31 long; sub- 

 marginal 0.25 long. 



Male. — Unlike the female in coloration and structure. Head and 

 body black, lateral and ventral parts faintly brownish. Scape pale 

 yellow in contrast to the brownish pedicel; flagellum appearing 

 blackish due to the numerous sensoria. Apex of fore and middle 

 femora pale and the latter with an annulus at base. Fore tibiae 

 mostly dirty white; middle tibiae dirty white on apical one-third. 

 So far as can be seen all tarsi whitish. 



Antennae unlike that of the female. Pedicel short, about as long 

 as wide and much shorter than the first funicle joint. Funicle 

 joints all slightly increase in width and probably slightly decrease 

 in length distad, but to the eye they appear subequal in length. 

 First funicle joint probably a trifle more than one and one-half 

 times as long as wide ; third probably a trifle less than one and one- 

 half times as long as wide. Club slightly wider than the funicle. 

 The male antenna is quite different from that of the female yet it 

 is not unlike the antennae of many different species. 



Habitus of the male unlike that of the female ; thorax longer and 

 abdomen much smaller; vestiture also different and the mesothorax 

 is finely reticulated. Mesoscutum longer than scutellum and rather 

 sparsely setose, there being only two setae on the posterior margin. 

 Scutellum proportionately longer than that of the female, by meas- 

 urement about as long as wide, but to the eye appearing longer than 

 wide. Scutellum with three pairs of bristles in longitudinal align- 

 ment, apical pair the longest. 



Fore wings crumpled and glued over the abdomen and not suit- 

 able for study. 



Length 0.9 mm. 



Redescribed from one female and one male (cotypes), U.S.N.M. 

 No. 3249. Labeled " par. on Lecanium coffeae, Punduloya, Ceylon, 

 E. E. Green" (f).^* 



^Lecanium coffeae Signoret is given as a synonym of Saissetia hemisphaerica (Targioni) 

 in Fernald's catalogue. 



