Maud D. Haviland 313 



The oviparous female. 



Apterous. Long, elliptical. Posterior segments elongated. Length = 

 1-8 mm. Breadth of abdomen -■- -83 mm. Head, dusky. Eyes, brown, and 

 somewhat deeply set. Total length of antenna = •90 mm., colour, dark 

 brown, without supplementary sensoria. Thorax and abdomen, dark 

 green (rarely brown), sometimes with darker markings on the dorsum. 

 A pair of lateral tubercles present on segments 1-4, 6. Cauda, green (or 

 brown). Cornicles, green (or brown), with imbricated scales, length = 

 •27 mm. Legs, short and hairy, pale brown, tarsi black. Hind tibiae 

 somewhat swollen, and bearing a few minute sensoria. Each female 

 lays from three to five elliptical eggs on the bark of the shoots, or more 

 rarely, on the leaves. The egg, which is at first yellow and translucent, 

 soon becomes black and polished on exposure to the air. 



