SCALE INSECTS (" COCCIDiE ") OF AUSTRALIA. 16 



Genus XV. Tectopulvinaria, Hempel. 



Reiista do Musca Paulista, vol. iv, p. 482. 1900. 



Annals and Magazine Nat. History, vol. viii, p. 69. 1901. 

 The type of this genus (T. albata) was described from Brazil. This is the 

 second species from Australia on Mr. E. E. Green's determination. " Adult 

 female secreting an ovisac as in Pulvinaria. Dorsum entirely covered with 

 a white felted cotton-like secretion ; antennae eight-jointed. Male scale thin, 

 white, narrow, elliptical, covered with a fine white secretion." (Cockerell.) 



Tectopulvinaria lorantJii, n.sp. 



The specimens were obtained near Ryde, New South Wales, upon the 

 foliage of a Loranthus, parasitic upon an imdetermined species of Eucalyptus 

 (Mr. J. J. Fletcher). 



Adult female completely hidden by a smooth, closely felted, white ovisac, 

 fitting close against the surface of the leaf; elongate, oval, convex, measuring, 

 with ovisac, ^ inch in length ; much longer than broad. 



Adult female, removed from ovisac, yellowish brown; nearly \ inch in 

 length; broadly oval, cephalic portion broadly rounded in front, showing 

 fine close short filaments, that may cover the whole of the dorsal suiface. 

 The central portion or sides of the thoracic segments cut into with two deep 

 keyhole-like incisions on either side (widely apart from each other); round 

 on the inner edge, with a fringe of four or more short brown bristles. Legs 

 and antennae indistinct ; mouth parts prominent ; rostrum long and distinct ; 

 anal segment deeply cleft, which runs back into a rounded base, widening 

 out and giving the extremities of the anal egsment an angular form. Larva 

 light yellow, rounded, massed together imder the female in a quantitv ct 

 short woolly particles. 



