Maskell. — On Coccididse. 71 



genus, with sometimes rather conspicuous segments. Length 

 about -^Qin. before gestation. Abdomen ending in a curve, 

 broken by many minute serrations, near which are some large 

 oval pores : on the margin are several longish spiny hairs, 

 single, or in pairs, or in threes. There is a very slight 

 median depression, and two very conspicuous median conical 

 lobes not adjacent, with rounded tips and very minutely serru- 

 lated sides. There are five groups of spinnerets : upper 

 group with eight to ten orifices ; upper laterals fourteen or 

 fifteen ; lower laterals sixteen to twenty-four. There are 

 many single dorsal spinnerets on every thoracic and abdomi- 

 nal segment, and on the margins of the same a few spiny 

 hairs. 



Adult male unknown. 



Hab. In Australia, on Banksia sp. My specimens were 

 sent by Mr. French from an unnamed locality near Melbourne. 

 The male puparia were very numerous on the leaves sent. 

 Many of the females had been parasitised, as shown by small 

 round holes in the puparia, and the insects in these cases 

 were swollen and deformed. 



This species is very easily distinguished by the two large 

 and conspicuous abdominal lobes, which are more prominent 

 than in any others of the genus. The non-carinated male 

 puparium fixes it in Mytilaspis. 



Genus Figeinia. 

 Piorinia rubra, sp. nov. Plate III., figs. 15-18. 



Female puparium really greyish or brownish-white, but on 

 account of the large size of the second pellicle, which nearly 

 fills it, only a small portion of the fibrous secretion is visible 

 beyond the pellicles, arid the whole has therefore a dark- 

 orange or reddish appearance. The pellicles together are 

 elongated-elliptical, and the fibrous secretion at their ex- 

 tremity is usually broadly rounded, the whole puparium 

 seeming therefore rather broadly pyriform. Length averaging 

 about /(jin. The second pellicle occupies nearly the whole 

 of it. 



Male puparium elongated, narrow, flattish, not carinated ; 

 distinguishable partly by exhibiting only one pellicle, partly 

 by its greater length, which averages -^^in. 



Adult female dark-orange, elongated; length about ^^in., 

 rather less than that of the second pellicle. Abdomen ter- 

 minating in two broad lobes, of which the inner margins are 

 nearly straight and almost adjacent, the outer margins 

 rounded, sloping outwardly, and minutely serrulate : at each 

 side of them, and at only a short distance, is a smaller denticu- 

 late lobe. The abdominal margin is broken by many serra- 

 tions, between which are several spines, about nine on each 



