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Leptospermum flavescens. From Maskell's subsequent remarks he appears to 

 think that our common species, which he called Planchonia styphdice, was 

 identical or only a variety of the European species. 



The adult female forms the typical yellow waxy test with the margins 

 lighter; she has no legs or antennae. 



176, Asterolecanium fimbriatum. Cat. Coccidse, p. 50. 



Aster olecanium hakece, Fuller. 

 Planchonia hakea;. Journal Bureau Agriculture, W.A., p. 1354. 1897. 

 Asterolecanium hakeoe. Trans. Ent. Soc, London, p. 456. 1899. 



This species was found on the foliage of Hakea Uicifolia and an undeter- 

 mined species of Acacia near Perth, W.A. 



Female test, light green, semi-transparent, flat, circular, no fiinge. Dia- 

 meter 0-06. Adult female margined with a fringe of figure-of-eight spinnerets, 

 which are sometimes double. A single row of multicircular poies round the 

 margin. Fuller, in his first notice, stated that this species was allied to 

 Planchonia ventruosa, but in the second definition said it was allied to A. 

 quercicola. 



178. Asterolecanium hakece. Cat. Coccidse, p. 51. 



Astcrohcaniiiin miliaris,' Boisduval. 



Insectol. Agricole, 1869. 



Signoret, Ann. Soc. Ent., France (4), vol. x, p. 281. 1870. 



Green, Coccidoe of Ceylon, pt. iv, p. 338, pi. cxxix, figs. 1^. 1904 



This species is common upon the foliage and stems of the giant bamboos. 

 It has been recorded from Algeria, Mauritius, Brazil, Jamiaca, Trinidad, and 

 Ceylon. I found it all over the bamboos in the Botanic Gardens at Brisbane, 

 Queensland. A second species with a very similar range {A. bamh-usce) is also 

 found on the bamboo, but is of a greener tint and much more circular in the 

 form of the test ; both are figured and described in Green', Coc idee of Ceylon. 

 He says that in Ceylon this species is found upon the stem, and not on the 

 foliage, but in the Kew Botanic Gardens says it is on the leaves. 



Test of female dull yellow, semi-transparent, with the enclosed reddish- 

 brown female darkening the anterior portion, elongate oval, constricted and 

 tapering to the posterior portion, fringed on margin; dorsal surface very 

 convex with central carina, and slight transverse lines. Length about /„ of 

 an inch. 



Adult female reddish yellow, tip of abdomen semi-transparent, with the 

 anal lobes each furni;hed with a long seta, with spines on the lobes and 

 between them. Anal ring with six hairs ; marginal pores well defined. 



182. Asterolecanium miliaris. Cat. Coccidae, p. 51. 



