ART. 17 MASKELL ASTEKOLECANIINAE MORRISON - 5> 



that this specimen is an aduit female, although it is our impression, 

 after examining it, that this is the case. The descriptive notes follow : 



Female (second stage or adult), — External covering and appear- 

 ance- not noted (see Maskell's papers for notes on these) ; oval, very 

 slightly narrowed behind ; antennae of the usual minute size charac- 

 teristic of the genus, legs wanting; 8-shaped pores present in a 

 single continuous marginal row, this supplemented by similar pores 

 distributed at intervals along and close to the marginal row and, in 

 addition, by a loose cluster of three to six such pores above the 

 spiracles on each side ; marginal row of 8-shaped pores accompanied 

 by a continuous row of small circular pores, these about half as 

 numerous as the 8-shaped pores, the arrangement, in general, being 

 an 8-shaped pore with a circular pore, then an 8-shaped pore without 

 the circular pore, then another accompanied by a circular pore, and 

 so on in alternation; presence or absence of abdominal multilocular 

 disk pores not determined; anal lobes scarcely indicated; anal lobe 

 seta between two and three times as long as the average anal ring 

 seta; anal ring well developed, with six setae. 



If it be assumed that Maskell's " 2nd stage female " is actually 

 an adult, as is believed, then this species may be fairly definitely 

 placed in the genus as being related to aureum and hmnhusae^ since 

 the occasional submarginal 8-shaped pores are present, supplement- 

 ing the marginal row, as in aw^ewni, while there are only a few addi- 

 tional 8-shaped pores in the mid-dorsal region as in hamhusae. 



ASTEROLECANIUM STYPHELIAE (Maskell) 

 Plate 2. figs. 2-14 ; Plate 27, fig. 2 



References. — Fernald, Cat. Cocc. World, 1903, p. 54. — Froggatt, 

 Agr. Gaz. N. S. Wales, vol. 26, 1915, p. 759.— Green, Bull. Ent. Res., 

 vol. 6, 1915, p. 48. 



The Maskell collection contains eight slides of this species, one 

 of "adult females and males in situ (Australia), 1891," one of 

 " adult female (Australia), 1891," one of " adult female, 1892," one of 

 "adult female, 1894," one of "2nd stage females, 1892," one of 

 " males, 1891," one of '' male pupa in test, 1893," and one of " larvae 

 (Australia), 1891." None of these is really good. The unmounted 

 material, placed under lot No. 218, evidently includes more than 

 one lot of specimens, one of which represents a closely related but 

 apparently distinct species. Additional examples, received from 

 French and Froggatt, have been available for comparison. 



Adult female. — See Maskell and Froggatt descriptions for char- 

 acterization of test and other external details; fully distended body^ 

 as mounted, distinctly longer than broad, an average specimen 0.93 

 mm. long and 0.66 mm. wide, posterior end somewhat narrowed;. 



