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ANOPLASPIS MASKELLI, new species. 



Plate 6, fig. 5. 



Adult female. — Scale white, flat or nearly so, broadly pyriform to 

 sometimes almost circular, exuviae apical; body of female elongate 

 turbinate; derm membranous; pygidium somewhat chitinized; an- 

 tennae small tubercles j^laced in a pocket as in preceding species, 

 each with a single large seta ; spiracles slender, anterior with about 

 15 pores, posterior without pores; head with a few setae, thoracic 



Pig. 37. — ANOPLASPIS maskblli, new species, a. adult female, pygidium, Xiv-;, B. 



ADULT female, OUTLINE OP BODY, X 30 J C. ADULT FEMALE, SPIRACLE, X 640 ; D. INTER- 

 MEDIATE STAGE FEMALE, PYGIDIAL MARGIN, X 335 ; E. ADULT FEMALE, ANTENNA, X 640 ; F. 

 ADDLT FEMALE, PYGIDIAL MARGIN, X 335 ; G. LARVA, APEX OF ABDOMEN^ X 640 ; H. LARVA 

 ANTENNA, X 640. 



and abdominal segments with groups of medium sized short tubular 

 ducts at margins, without gland spines; abdominal segments with 

 groups of small, short tubular ducts in a row behind each posterior 

 spiracle; pygidium strongly triangular, but with the extreme apex 

 rounded; median lobes present, small, short-spatulate, placed close 

 together, but separated by two small gland spines, second lobes larger 

 and broader, the inner apical angle much more prominent, the outer 

 margin parallel to the pygidium, third and any other lobes repre- 

 sented by almost continuous serrated and notched thickenings of the 

 pygidial margin; with the two median gland spines already men- 



