SCALE INSECTS ('•' COCCIDiE ") OF AUSTRALIA. 25^ 



Genus XX. Inglisia, Maskell. 



Trans. N. Zealand Inst., vol. xi, p. 213. 1878. 

 Coccidce of New Zealand, p. 75. 1887. 



This genus was created by Maskell to contain five species of lecanid coccids 

 he described from New Zealand. He defined it thus :• — " Test of female 

 glassy, elevated, striated with radiating rows of air cells. Fringe not always 

 priesent in the adult stage." 



The remarkable tests are constructed in several sections of hard glassy 

 plates, finely striated, forming a shell around the adult coccid. In the New 

 Zealand species these tests are more or less pointed at the apex, but on the 

 Australian forms the two main sections are impressed on the summit with 

 an elongate, narrow, deep depression. The adult female coccid is convex, 

 corrugated, and furnished with legs and antennae. Other species ha\e been 

 described from Mexico, India, and Trinidad. Cockerell in determining a 

 species allied to the Australian forms, with the impression on the dorsal 

 surface of the test, placed it and our two Australian species in a new genus 

 he called Cardiococcus, the only point of difference from Inglisia being the 

 dorsal pit in the female test. 



I have retained our species in Maskell's genus, for it seems to me that a 

 transverse depression in the otherwise similar test of a coccid is hardly suffi- 

 cient to remove it from the group under which it is well known to writers on 

 Coccidfe. 



The species have a very wide range in Australia. 



Inglisia foraminifer, Maskell (Fig. 13). 

 Trans. N. Zealand Inst., vol. xxv, p. 213, pi. xii, figs. 1-5. 1892. 

 Fuller, Journal of Department of Agric, Westun Australia, p. 1345. 1897. 

 Fuller, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 460. 1899. 

 Cardiococcus foraminifer, CockereU, Ann. and Mag. N. H. (7), vol. xi, p. 15C. 1903e 



This, like the following species, has a wide range over Australia. Th 

 type was described from South Australia, on the Quandong tree {Santalnm 

 acuminatum) (Tepper). It has been found near Geraldton, Western Australia, 

 on a Loranthus parasitic on the same 

 tree (Lea). Fuller described thisone, 

 imder the name of loranthi as a ne\v 

 variety, but the only difference from 

 the typical formis the absence of legs 

 in the adult female coccid. I have 

 collected it at Yass, New South 

 Wales, and in several other western 

 localities on undertermined shrubs. Fig 13.— /;i,//,,.«/ fumminifn. 



