366 THE COCCIDAE 



tubae and brevaceratubae wanting; mesospiracerores and metaspira- 

 cerores present; anus and vulva located near cephalic end of pygidium; 

 pygidium of second nymphal female with pair of median lobes, project- 

 ing, lateral margins free, triangular in outline, confluent at proximal 

 end, second and third pairs of lobes much smaller, distal margin 

 notched at middle. — Ceylon on Loranthus fodiens Green. 



SPECIES OF XANTIIOPTIIALMA 



Insects with body nearly circular, less than one-half millimeter in 

 length; caudal end of abdomen minutely serrate with three pairs of 

 serrate triangular lobe-like projections with setae at their distal ends, 

 arranged like lobes; anus located over three times its width from 

 caudal margin; female probably transforms in a puparium. — Mexico 

 on "laureltree." concinnum Ckll. & Parr. 



SPECIES OF CREDODIASPIS 



Pygidium with adult female with median pair of lobes large, longer than 

 broad, distal end bluntly rounded, sides parallel; other lobes obsolete; 

 each lateris with three long dagger-shaped plates, largest adjacent to 

 each third lobe, smallest near middle of each lateris, other plate nearly 

 midway between cephalic and caudal plates, slightly nearer caudal; 

 spiracerores and genacerores wanting; two minute latadentes bearing 

 oraceratubae located between median pair of lobes and an oracera- 

 tuba on each side between two caudal plates; pygidium of second 

 nymphal female with four pairs of lobes, median pair oblique, mesal 

 margins with two or three indentations; second, third, and fourth 

 pairs of lobes quadrangular, subequal, entire; plates arranged 0, 1, 

 1, 1, 5, cephalic plate of each lateris similar in form to those of in- 

 cisurae, others broad, pointed, sides crenulate; oraceratubae located 

 in second, third, fourth incisurae and between two caudal plates of 

 each lateris. — South Africa on Cynometra limuloidcs Lindgr. 



SPECIES OF ADISCODIASPIS 

 Pygidium of adult female without lobes, setae, plates, or genacerores; 

 ceratubae short, numerous, arranged in a series or in a mass on the 

 pj'gidium and on the border of the segments of preabdomen; scale 

 rounded, ostreiform, white with yellow first exuvia, placed near per- 

 iphery, ventral scale thick and flat. — France on Erica 



ericicola Marchal. 



