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The general shape is broadly, irregularly round, the secretion forming 

 rounded irregular masses on the flattened summit. Length and diameter 

 up to J inch, the curled handle or tail projecting another ^ inch behind. 



The male test, elongate, oval, semi-transparent, white, with a yellow tint 

 from the presence of the enclosed larval male coccid. The outer maiginB 

 finely crenulated and the dorsal surface formed of glassy plates forming a 

 slender lanceolate jDattein, slightly under | inch in length. The adult female, 

 reddish brown, with the outer margins lighter, broadly oval, convex, with 

 the anal cleft very distinct, length about i inch. 



Ceronema dri/andrce, Fuller. 

 Journal of Depi. of Agriculture, W. Australia, vol. iv, p. 1345, 1897. 

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



Fuller says : " A sj^ecies closely allied to C. banlsice, but handsomer and 

 easily distinguished by the form of the test, which covers the whole of the 

 dorsum excepting a small elliptical spot towards one end. Taken upon 

 Dryandra florabunda and D, nivea, near Perth, Western Australia." 



631. Ceronema dryandrcB. Cat. Coccidse, ^. 127 



