SCALE INSECTS (" COCCIDiE ') OF AUSTRALIA. 43 



stage the colour is light yellowish-brown, the general form elongate, oval, 

 tapering behind and round on the sides, convex, but flattened on the back, 

 and showing two or more parallel lines of shallow punctures or depressions ; 

 the apical orifice large, irregularly rounded, and dark brown towards the 

 front. Maskeil says the antennae are eight-jointed and feet rather slender. 

 In the immature, or earlier stages of development, the coccids rest upon a 

 slight pad of cottony secretion. 



The male coccids are enclosed in white sub-cylindrical, closely felted, 

 cottony puparia, the ends of which are closed with a thin glassy plate in which 

 there is a small orifice. Length, about j\ of an inch. These male puparia 

 often cluster along a small twig with their base of attachment surrounded 

 with white cottony secretion, and quite separate from the females. 



1099. Crypti's baccatum. Cat. Coccidse, p. 209. 



