1919.] 176 



thorax depressed and an oblique linear impression on each side of 

 the hinder half, the elytra without any black at the apex, the tibiae 

 and tarsi yellow, Avhilst the female has the thorax and elytra, tibiae 

 and tarsi pale red, and sometimes two small red spots on the head. 



I have good reason to judg-e that L. rubra is an old inhabitant of 

 the Horsford district, rather than an accidental importation. It is a 

 remote country of heath and woodland, and it is most unlikely that the 

 beetle can have escaped from foreign timber. The ground on which it 

 occurred has been covered with Scots pines for at least a century, as I 

 well recollect a number of large trees being felled there over thirty 

 years ago. 



" Corfe," College Road, Norwich. 

 Jult/ 1919. 



[I have taken this insect more or less freeh^ in pine-woods in the 

 French, Swiss, Italian, and Austrian Alps, in the Black Forest in 

 Germany, in Spain, Corsica, the Landes, Pyrenees, etc., usualh' on 

 Umbelliferae. It is mentioned in Stephens's "Manual," under the 

 name L. ruhrotestacea 111., as having been improperly indicated as 

 British.— G. C. C] 



ON A NEW SPECIES OF AlsTOmNA (COCCIDAE) FEOM CEYLON. 

 BY E. ERNEST GREEX, F.Z.S. 



Antoniiia zonata, n. sp. 



Adult female naked ; not enclosed in a felted sac, but resting- ou a bed of 

 whitish secretionary matter ; apparently globular, but actually pyriform, the 

 anterior extremity narrower (tig. b): without any vestige of legs : at first of an 

 olivaceous greenish colour, with dark brown zones and blotches ou the dorsal 

 area; older examples may be of a more ov less uniform castaneous brown 

 colour, when the markings are largely obscured. Antennae rudimentary, cou- 

 sistiug of a broad, short basal joint and a longer irregularly conical terminal 

 jniut, the extremity truncate and somewhat concave, with a group of stout 

 curved setae. Spiracles large aud conspicuous. Anal ring set in a wide pit 

 Avith a comparatively small, broadly oval or circular orifice, through which 

 the anal setae project. The external oritice is surrounded by circular 

 ceriferous pores aud many stout hairs. The anal ring itself has a deeply 

 milled circumference aud bears six long stout setae. 



Length 2-7.5--5 mm. : greatest breadth 2-o-4 mm. 



Male puparium in the form of an elongate, narrow, felted sac. 

 On a shrubby species of bamboo {Tcinostachyiim attenuaUim), 

 Pundaluoya, Ceylon. The adult females are clustered in the axils of the 

 smaller branches. They are seldom actually exposed, but are almost 



