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AnOMALOOOCCUS CREMASTOGASTRI, SJ). 110V. 

 Adult ? naked ; thinly dusted with white mealy powder. Highly convex ; a 



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strongly marked median longitu- 

 dinal ridge and two transverse 

 ridges (as in Lecanium olece). Pos- 

 terior extremity deeply cleft. 

 Colour olivaceouR, covered with a 

 waxy bloom, which gives the insect 

 a general tint of greyish-white. 

 Antenna 8-jointed. No legs. Anal 

 ring with twelve to fourteen stout, 

 flattened hairs. On the dorsum, 

 immediately anterior to the anal 

 orifice, are numerous small perforate discs, not disposed in pairs, but irregularly 

 scattered. Long, 3.50 mm. ; broad, 3 mm. 



Female of 2nd stage with G-jointed antenna;, and spatulate stigmatie spines. 



Male puparium oblong, oval, convex, with an indistinct median ridge. Greyish- 

 ochreous. A large hinged operculum at posterior extremity. 



Adult $ castnneous. Thorax broad and depressed. Wings ample ; halteres 

 conspicuous. G-enital sheath slender, pointed, about one half the length of abdomen. 

 No caudal seta. Total length, 1-25 mm. 



Sab. : Tn nests of Cremastog aster Dohrni, on Ficns sp. Pera- 

 deniya, Ceylon. 



AMORPHOCOCCITS, gen. nov. 



Pam. AsTEROLECANIIN-E. 

 Insects forming galls. Adult ? naked, or partially covered by second pellicle. 

 Antennae rudimentary. Legs wanting. Anal ring setiferous, in a shallow cleft at 

 extremity of a pygidiform process. 



Young larvae with conspicuous 8-shaped pores on margin. Anal lobes small. 

 Type : A. mesuce. 



Amokphococctts mesu^:, sp. nov. 



Female insect enclosed in a rounded gall, with a median apical aperture. The 

 galls normally hemispherical, but two or more may coalesce to form an irregular 

 mammillate swelling. Cavity of gall conical. 



Adult ? gamboge-yellow ; soft, tumescent ; sub-circular, rounded below, 

 slightly concave above ; sides slightly indented at the stigmatie regions. A minute 



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