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[September, 



ON SOME JAVANESE COCCID.E : WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW 



SPECIES. 



BY E. ERNEST GREEN, F.E.S., 

 Government Entomologist, Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradenii/a, Ceylon. 



The following Dotes are founded upon an interesting series of 

 CoccidcB collected in June by Prof. A. Zimmermanu, of the Botanic 

 Gardens, Buitenzorg. Many of the species (and some of the genera) 

 are new to science ; others are representative partly of the Indian 

 and partly of the Australian fauna ; the remainder are cosmopolitan 

 forms that have followed civilization throughout the world. 



Lecanium tenebricophilum, sp. nov. (fig. 1). 



Adult $ , bright castaneous to dark brown ; strongly convex ; irregularly 



liemisijlierieal, with posterior extremity abruptly depressed (fig. 1 b), the anal scales 



situate in the centre of this depressed area. Stigniatic clefts moderately deep ; the 



spiracle impinging on the cleft (fig. \ c). No stigniatic spines. Limbs small, but 



Fig. 1. 



fully developed. Antenna with seven or eight joints, the former being probably 



