18 Transactions. — Zoologi/. 



are from Melbourne, sent by Mr. French, whose name I am 

 glad to attach to this very handsome species. 



The rich black colour and the curious fringe of small fans 

 on the margin very clearly distinguish this insect. Viewed 

 with a low power of the microscope, the tesselltitions andjiitted 

 surface of the dorsum are very curious. It would belong pro- 

 bably to Dr. Signoret's first series of the genus Lecanium 

 (Essai, p. 226), though exceptional in its oviparous habit, and 

 nearest, possibly, to L. tessellatum, Sign. But no species 

 hitherto reported (as far as I know) exhibits a similar fringe. 



Group COCCIDIN^. 



Subdivision ACANTHOCOCCID^. 



Genus Solenophoea, Maskell. 



Solenophora corokise, Maskell. N.Z. Trans., vol. xxii.,p.l41. 

 Plate v., figs. 1-7. 



I had not last year seen anything but the adult female of 

 this species ; I can now add the second stage and the male. 



Female of second stage covered wath a dirty-yellow or 

 brownish loose test, convex, elliptical, from which protrude 

 Usually six or seven whitish, rather thick, cottony processes. 

 The insect is red, elliptical in the cephalic and thoracic re- 

 gions, tapering to a short, thick, abdominal prolongation 

 terminating in two anal tubercles, each bearing a seta. Anal 

 ring with six hairs. Feet entirely absent. Antennas atro- 

 phied, a single conical joint, bearing a few hairs. Body 

 covered with great number of spinneret-tubes w^ith figure-of-8 

 ■orifices, and some circular. Length of insect about ij^gin. 



Male pupa enclosed in a cylindrical, yellow, felted sac, of 

 which the extremity is somewhat flattened ; length about 



Adult male red-brown in colour ; length about ^^^in. The 

 thorax is rather large, the abdomen somewhat short and 

 Squat. Antennae of nine joints, the first two very short, the 

 third and fourth the longest, the rest sub-equal ; all the joints 

 bear hairs, and on the last are three long hairs knobbed at the 

 «nd. Dorsal eyes, two ; ventral eyes, two : ocelli, two. Abdo- 

 minal spike short, conical, with the curved appendage notice- 

 able amongst Acanthococcidca. 



As the second-stage female in this species is apodoas, as in 

 S. fagi, the character becomes important enough to be generic, 

 and Solenophora is thus, I believe, a quite exceptional genus in 

 the group. Nididaria, Targioni, and Antonina, Siguoret, lose 

 the feet in the adult state, but retain them in the second 

 stage. The male of S. corokics offers no particular cha- 

 racters. ., . • . 



