98 Fiorinia. 



FIORINIA SIMILIS, sp. nov. 

 (Plate XXVIII.) 



Female puparium {fig. 6) very similar to that of F. sap?'osmcc, but more 

 delicate and transparent, and without any dark median stripe. There is an 

 indistinct median longitudinal ridge, with a short lateral ridge on each side 

 near the hinder extremity. Colour pale clear yellow or orange, transparent, 

 the form of the insect and eggs plainly visible through the scale {fig. 6). 

 Secretional margin very narrow. On the under surface there are two waved 

 lines of opaque white secretion extending from the anterior margin nearly to 

 the middle of the scale {fig. 11) which are not found in saprosmcc. Length, 

 175 to I '90 mm. Breadth 075 mm. 



Male puparium {fig. 2) white, tricarinate, the ridges prominent and powdery. 

 Puparia not covered with flocculent matter as in saprosiiKT, but the surface of 

 the leaf surrounding the male colonies thinly coated with a fine whitish powder 

 {fig. i). Length i mm. Breadth about 0*40 mm. 



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

 brownish ; anterior extremity not so broadly rounded as in saprostnce; ab- 

 dominal segments contracted till the extremity of the pygidium is almost level 

 with their lateral margins. Several groups of truncate marginal tubercles 

 {fiS- ?)• Antennae {fig. 5) wider apart, and with no median tubercle. Rostrum 

 {fig. 12) conspicuous on account of the large, blackish, recurved anterior 

 processes. Pygidium {fig. 8) deltoid, narrower and more pointed than in 

 saprosmce. Median lobes very small, erect, and separate ; no deep median 

 notch ; lateral lobes obsolete. Circumgenital glands in five groups ; upper and 

 lower laterals, each with from thirteen to eighteen orifices ; median group 

 consisting of three or four separate orifices. Tubular spinnerets very minute 

 and inconspicuous. Length (after oviposition) 075 mm. Breadth 0*50 mm. 



Adult male reddish orange. Antenna with a knobbed hair at extremity. 

 First and second pairs of feet with four digitules {fig. 9), hind feet with three 

 digitules {fig. 10). 



Young larva yellow, oval, tapering behind. Abdominal extremity {fig. 3) 

 with several tubercles and fleshy spines. Eggs pale yellow. 



Habitat on leaves of unidentified shrub ; Punduloya. The females occur on 

 both surfaces of the leaves, the male scales on the under surface only. 



This species can be distinguished from saprosmcB by the more widely 

 separate antenna without median tubercle (compare PL XXVIII. fig. 5, with 

 PL XXVII. fig. 8), also by the narrower and more pointed pygidium with its 

 small erect median lobes. The adult males can be separated by the number 

 of digitules on the anterior feet. 



