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Adult female dark reddish-brown, broadly oval, with the anal segment 

 divided, either side produced into a stout blunt lobe bearing one very long 

 hair and several shorter ones. The anal ring with eight or more flattened 

 hairs and the dark chitinous anal plate below forming a half circle almosi> 

 enclosing it. Antennae aborted into two blunt horns ; legs wanting, epider- 

 mis thickly covered with both large yellowish, and smaller semi-transparent; 

 figure-of-eight processes, and many other small circular pores or glands. 

 Length, iV of an inch. 



Cerococcus hryoides, Mask ell (Fig. 44). 



Planchonia bryoides. Trans. N. Zealand, Institute, vol. xxvi, p. 84 1893; and 

 vol. xxix, p. 315, 1897. 



Asterolecanium bryoides, Cockerell, Bull. Illinois State Laboratory, vol. iv. 189(5. 



This species was described from specimens upon the bark of an undeter- 

 mined plant received by Maskell from Fiji. Later on he received specimens 

 from New South Wales upon the twigs of the native cherry {Exocaryus 

 cv/pressiformis), which he described under the varietal name of stellata, liut 

 did not seem to consider it even a well-defined variety. I have found it upon 

 the stems of a plant Helichrysum diosmijolium at Mittagong, New South Wales. 

 Mr. C. T. Musson obtained it at Richmond (Hawkesbury College) upon broom. 



Test of adult female formed of dull yellowish secretion, but so thickly 

 covered with secretionary matter forming grey tufbed filaments that it gives 

 it a greyish-brown tint ; irregularly oval, convex, with a large anal opening 

 on the hind margin. Length, A of an inch. 



Male test pale yellow, semi-transparent, sometimes with a greyish tint, 

 finely granulated, elongate oval, slipper-shaped, round in front, with the 

 hind portion truncate. Length about ^ of an inch. 



Adult female dull yellow, broadly oval, with the anal segment elongated^ 

 rounded to apex, slightly cleft, with the anal lobes bearing a long bristle or 

 seta. Maskell calls the anal segment a short conical " tail," and the whole 

 female of a peg-top shape. The anal ring and anal plate dull yellow, chitinous, 

 former bearing short hairs. Derm thickly covered with figure-of-eight orifices, 

 of two sizes. Legs and antennse wanting. Length, \ of an inch. 



218. Antecerococcus hryoides. Cat. Coccidas, p. 58. 



Cerococcus pmictijerus, Green (Fig. 45). 



Antecerococcus punctiferus, Pro. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, p. 560, vol. xxv, jil. xxxiii, 

 figs. 3-9. 1900. 



This species was described from specimens obtained at Bathurst, New 

 South Wales, upon the stems of a garden shrub, Pittosporum eugenioides. 



