96 Fiorinia. 



FIORINIA SAPROSM^, Green. 



(Plate XVII.) 



Fiorinia snprosi/icTy Green, ' Catal. of Coccida?,' Ind. Mus. Azotes, Vol. IV. 



No. I (1896). 



Female puparium {fig. 2) very similar to that of F. fiorinice, but rather 

 larger; oblong oval, a very narrow margin of colourless transparent secretion 

 surrounding the large second pellicle. Colour clear orange yellow, through 

 which the form of the adult insect and the ova can be distinguished ; towards 

 the hinder extremity is generally a paler region caused by the accumulation of 

 the white eggskins beneath the scale. There is a median logitudinal ridge, 

 which is often of a darker (reddish) colour. Before oviposition the adult insect 

 occupies the posterior portion of the puparium {fig. 5), but as the eggs are 

 deposited the insect is shifted forwards until it lies in the anterior half {fig. 3), 

 the eggs being arranged in a double row behind. Length 175 to 2 mm. 

 Breadth 075 mm. 



Male puparium {fig. 10) opaque white ; obscurely tricarinate ; pellicle pale 

 yellow. The puparia are usually collected together in small groups, partially 

 concealed beneath a quantity of white filamentous and flocculent matter secreted 

 by the larva;. Length ri2 mm. Breadth about 0*40 mm. 



Adult female {fig. 4) pale yellow, pygidium brownish ; margin flattened and 

 almost colourless; no eyespots. Before oviposition the insect is broadly oval 

 {fig. 3) ; afterwards it becomes almost semicircular in outline {fig. 4). The 

 abdominal segments are completely retracted, forming a concavity from which 

 the pygidium projects. Just within the anterior margin are the rudimentary 

 antennas {fig. 8), each consisting of two very short joints, with a longish stout 

 bristle springing from the basal one ; a small tricuspid tubercle separates the 

 two antennae. On the lateral margins of the body are several groups of 

 prominent jointed (.?) tubercles {fig. 9), which may perhaps be used by the 

 insect for shifting its position within the puparium. Pygidium {fig. 7) rather 

 broad and bluntly triangular ; extremity with a deep median indentation 

 occupied by the median lobes, which are united at the base by a curved trans- 

 verse piece ; the lobes are very slightly serrate at the extremity. Lateral lobes 

 obsolete. Margin of pygidium irregularly sinuate, with several small prominent 

 points and indentations. Tubular spinnerets small and inconspicuous, filiform. 

 Circumgenital glands in five groups, the median and upper laterals forming 

 together a more or less complete arch ; lower laterals with eighteen or nineteen 

 orifices, upper laterals with fifteen to twenty, median with six to eight arranged 

 in an irregular chain. Length (after oviposition) 075. Breadth o"62 mm 



Adult male {fig. 11) minute; bright orange yellow. Ocelli black; upper 

 pair separate by about their own diameter, lower pair by half their diameter. 

 Antennae normal, ten-jointed, hairy ; tenth joint with a knobbed hair at apex 



