144 Chionaspis . 



CHIONASPIS LITZE/E, sp. nov. 



(Plate XLIX.) 



Chionaspts eugenice, var litzea, Green, ' Catalogue of Coccida?,' Ind. Mtis. Notes, 

 Vol. IV., No. I, p. 2 (1896). 



Female puparium oblong oval, one side usually straight {fig. 2), where 

 it has been confined by one of the prominent veins of the leaf ; broadest 

 across median area. White ; very thin and delicate ; semi-transparent. 

 Pellicles very pale straw colour. Secretionary area completely surrounding 

 the second pellicle. Length 2 to 2*50 mm. Breadth r25 to i'5o mm. 



Male puparium (fig. 3) snowy white ; elongate, narrow, sides almost 

 parallel ; strongly and distinctly tricarinate, the carinse slightly sinuous ; the 

 secretionary area overlapping the hinder half of the pale yellow peUicle. 

 Length i"25 mm. 



Adult female {^g. 4) bright pale yellow, scarcely darkening in older 

 examples. Eye-spots conspicuous, blackish, situated on small marginal 

 prominences. Form oblong, broadest across mesothorax, tapering behind. 

 Abdominal segments well defined before oviposition, their lateral margins pro- 

 tuberant. Anterior spiracles with small and inconspicuous parastigmatic glands. 

 Margins of second and third abdominal segments with many small pores and 

 conical squames. Pygidium (Jio-. 5) with median lobes moderately large, sunk 

 in median cleft, divergent, their free edges quite smooth. Second and third 

 pairs of lobes rather smooth, scarcely projecting beyond margin, not narrowed 

 at base, duplex, the mesal lobule in each case larger and truncate, the lateral 

 lobule bluntly pointed. Squames spiniform, those nearest the extremity very 

 small ; one on each on first to fourth spaces, and two or three on base. 

 Dorsal pores few ; usually one on each of third and fourth spaces, a series on 

 base, and a larger series on third abdominal segment. Circumgenital glands in 

 five groups ; median 16 (this number of orifices constant in every individual of 

 a large series examined); upper laterals 25 to 33 ; lower laterals 16 to 23. Anal 

 slightly posterior to genital aperture. Length of extended example i'25 mm. 

 Greatest breadth o"6o mm. 



Adult male bright red. Antenna with sparse whip-like hairs ; terminal joint 

 {^g. 6) shorter than penultimate ; a very slender minutely knobbed hair at 

 apex. Foot {^g. 7) with three digitules, one on claw and two on tarsus, all very 

 slender and with very minute knobs. Claw long and slender, nearly half length 

 of tarsus ; tarsus shorter than tibia. Length (including genital sheath) i mm. 



Eggs and young larvae bright yellow. 



Habitat on leaves of Litzea zeylanica. Pundaluoya ; Nuwara Eliya. 

 Usually on under surface of leaves ; but occasionally occurring on upper 

 surface also. 



This species, at first considered to be a variety of Ch. eugejiia, Mask. 



