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[February, 



ON SOME JAVANESE COCCrD.fi:: WITH DESCRTPTIONS OF NEW 



SPECIES. 



BT E. ERNKST (>RRE>^, F.E.S., 



Oovernmeni Dufnmologisf, Rnt/al Botanic Gnrdens, Perndeniiin, Cei/lon. 



{Concluded from vol. xl, paffe 210). 



Lepidosaphes pinnjEFORMIs, Bouehe. 



On Citrus (No. IS). 



This is the cosmopolitan insect, hitherto pjenerally known as 

 Mytilaspis citricola, Pack. Dr. Leonarrli has now identified it with 

 the older name of pinnceformh, of Honche ; and Mrs. Fernald, in her 

 " Catalogue of the Coccidcc of the World," shows that Lepidosaphes 

 of Shimer has precedence over Mi/tilaspis of Signoret. 



Lepidosapues crawii, Ckll. 

 On P/erospermum javanicwn (No. 63). 



Lepidosaphes lasianthi, Green. 

 On undetermined plant (No. 104). 



Opuntiaspis javanensis, sp. nov. (fig. 5). 



Fig. 5. c 



Female puparium (fig. 5a) elongate, narrow ; sides subparallel ; carinae not 

 very prominent ; margin and posterior extremity flattened. Colour reddish-brown 

 to deep purple-brown ; margin and posterior extremity whitish ; pellicles reddish. 



Length, 3 mm. ; greatest breadth, 1 mm. 



