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massed together that it is difficult to distinguish them. For 

 the same reason the length is not clear, but it may reach iin. 

 There are many longish, loose, glassy threads scattered over 

 the surface. 



Sac of male pupa elliptical, flattish, more waxy than that 

 of the female. Dorsally there are two longitudinal depres- 

 sions which give the sac a tricarinate appearance. 



Adult female dark -brown, elliptical and convex, but 

 shrivelling at gestation. Antennae of seven joints, of which 

 the third is the longest, then the fourth, the rest subequal; 

 the last is irregular, and bears some moderate hairs, as also 

 the sixth. Feet moderate ; the digitules of the claw are 

 slightly dilated ; I have not been able to see any on the 

 tarsus. The abdomen exhibits a distinct cleft, with two 

 small triangular lobes ; anal ring with six strong hairs. 

 After treatment the ring frequently protrudes, as in some 

 Lecanids. Margin bearing all round some longish spines. 

 Epidermis covered with many large circular pores, and also 

 numbers of tubular spinnerets of smaller size. Mentum 

 raonomerous. 



Second stage of female not observed. 



Larva yellowish-red, flattish, elliptical, active ; length, 

 about eV^- Antennae of six irregular confused joints : the 

 last bears several hairs, of which two are much longer than 

 the rest. Feet long, slender, with four fine digitules. Margin 

 bearing all round a row of moderate spines. Abdomen ter- 

 minating in two distinct protruding anal tubercles, each bear- 

 ing a seta and some spines. 



Adult male unknown. 



Hab. In China, on Callicarpa tomentosa. My specimens 

 were sent by Mr. Koebele from Hongkong. 



There is no doubt, from the form of the abdomen in the 

 larva and in the adult, as to the position of this species, and I 

 cannot attach it to any known genus on account of the felted 

 sac. I imagine that the small tubular spinnerets produce the 

 felting, while the glassy threads may spring from the large 

 circular pores. 



Section COGGING. 

 Genus Planchonia. 

 Planchonia bryoides, Maskell, 1893, var. steUata, var. nov. 

 The female insect is almost exactly similar to the type, but 

 the test differs in its more regularly stellate form, resembling 

 in almost all specimens my fig. 3 of pi. v.. Transactions, 

 vol. xxvi., whereas in my original material the tests were 

 almost all as in fig. 2 of the same plate. The antennas and 

 feet also are not entirely absent, the former being represented 



