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The adult female is brownish red, antennai rather long, composed of tix 

 joints, but appear to be eight through transverse marks across the third and 

 sixth ; feet wanting ; anal tubercules small ; great numbers of tubular spin- 

 nerets and figure-of-eight orifices on the epidermis. 



The test of the male is white, grey or yellowish, waxy, smooth on the 

 anterior portion, transversely corrugated on the hind portion. Length, 

 about n-6 of an inch. 



199. Lecaniodaspis eucalypti. Cat. Coccidse, p. 55. 



Lecaniodaspis frenchi, n.sp. (Fig. 42). 

 This remarkable scale comes from the mallee scrub-country in north-west 

 Victoria, where it was obtained by Mr. C. French, jun., covering the branch- 

 lets of one of the stunted mallee eucalyptus. The specimens were determined 

 by Mr. E. E. Green. 



Fig. 42. — Lecaniodaspis frenchi. 



The female tests cover the bark in contact with each other, slightly over 

 ^ of an inch in length, pale yellow or light biscuit brown showing a mottled 

 granulated surface, waxy, convex, irregularly rounded, slightly longer than 

 broad, with the hind portion broadest and the margins turned in underneath, 

 a large oval anal aperture well above the margin. 



The adult female is a dark reddish brown, much shrivelled after egg-laying, 

 rounded, concave bleneath ; anal segment arcuate ; antenna? tapering, eight- 

 jointed, 1st to 3rd uniform, 4th to 7th smaller, 8th small and irregular, show 

 aborted fore and mid legs, anal ring and anal plate bright yellow, with a 

 fringe of twelve or more hairs. 



Lecaniodaspis melaleucce, Fuller. 

 Prosopophora melaleucce. Journal of the Dep'. of Agriculture, West Australia, p. 1345. 



1897. 

 Prosopophora melaleucce. Trans. Ent. Soc, London, p. 455, pi. xv, fig. 31. 1899. 



A species described from specimens found on the branches of a ti-lree 

 (Melaleitca leucadendron), Swan River, Western Australia. 



