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because the adult female has only seven joints on the antennae, but at the 

 same time he notes that members of the genus Monophlehus have eleven, 

 nine, and seven joints. Further on he says that until the males of the diiierent 

 species are known they cannot be classified, and yet the male of M. fuscus 

 is unknown. This small mealy bug was sent from New South ^Vales by Prof. 

 Koebele, found upon Eucalyptus. 



25. Mo)M])lilebulus fuscus. Cat. Coccidae, p. 19. 



Motw-phlehus illigeri, Westwood. 

 Arcana Entomologica, vol. i, p. 22, pi. 6, f. 4, 1841. 

 Signoret, Ann. Soc. Entom. France (5), vol. v, p. 365, 1875. 

 Cockerell, The Entomologist, vol. xxxv, p. 319, 1902. 



The male only of this species was described from Tasmania, and we have 

 no record of a Monophlehus from Tasmania since. The rediscovery of this 

 species would be very interesting. 



The male of the usual typical form is figured with numerous short lateral 

 -abdominal processes. 



6. Moikophlebus illigeri. Cat. Coccidse, p. 16. 



