SCALE INSECTS (" COCCIDiE ") OF AUSTRALIA. 61 



In January, 1903, I visited and fumigated a pittosporuni hedge in a garden 

 at Nowra, New South Wales, that was very badly damaged by this coccid, 

 every twig being so thickly encrusted with the tests that one could hardly 

 define the individual specimens. The female tests in these examples were 

 much more thickly covered with the glassy white filaments than the typical 

 forms. 



Adult female enclosed in a stout covering of granulated waxy secretion of 

 reddish colour, with four tufts of pale glassy white filaments, two large ones 

 on each side, with smaller tufts behind. Broadly rounded with the hind 

 portion tapering round the anal opening. 



Male tests slipper-shaped, of a. more yellow tint, mottled with pale red, 

 front rounded, the hind portion truncate, sloping downward. Length, 1-25 

 mm. 



Adult female irregularly oval (treated in potash, pyriform), the abdomen 

 terminating in a pair of conical lobes each furnished with a long seta and 

 several smaller spines on the sides ; anal ring with eight stout flattened hairs. 

 Antennae and legs rudimentary. Derm covered with figure-of-eight pores, of 

 two sizes, the larger ones grouped in definite spots, also bands of small cir- 

 cular pores. Length, 1-25 to l-SO mm.; breadth (across thorax), 1 mm. 



219. Antecerococcus functiferus. Cat. Coccidse, p. 58. 



Cerococcus ptjriformis, n.sp. 

 The female tests were thickly encrusting the branchlets of an undetermined 

 small-leaved, spiny shrub growing in the Parkes district, New South Wales 

 (D. Ploughman). 



The female tests, pear-shaped, with the ventral surface flattened against 

 the bark, forms an almost complete sack of pale yellow granulated waxy 

 secretion, fringed with beautifully glassy filaments. The anterior portion 

 forms a short rounded tube with an irregular anal opening at the tip. Length 

 about i^j of an inch, slightly longer than broad. 



Adult female dark reddish-brown, when boiled in potash, showing a pear- 

 shaped form, which is lost when mounted. Antennae, and legs aborted, 

 epidermis covered with figure-of-eight pores running in rows, with other 

 single scattered pores. Anal segment produced into two small lobes each 

 bearing a slender hair, with a short spine-like hair on either side of each lobe. 

 The anal ring close to the lobes, with a small anal plate, and a ring of six 

 hairs. This handsome species agrees with Green's definition of the genus, 

 the test having the typical form, with the addition of the delicate fringe along 

 the outer margin found in the members of the genus Asterohcanium. There 

 may be eight hairs on the anal ring, but I can only make out six. 



