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comprimento. As articulações têm os seguintes com- 
primentos (*) 1, 104-1175 2 911105 Solo 
4, 59-65: O, 52-008 "6, MS AS NT, TI BASTO, 
84; 9, 71-84; 10, 71-78; 11, 123-143; sendo a 
fórmula: approximada 11,3, 2, 3, (8,6, 7,9, 10) 
(4, 5). Todas as articulações têm pellos compridos. 
Ha no lado inferior do corpo, perto da base das 
antennas, dois olhos proeminentes, de fórma conica 
e côr pardo-escura. 
As pernas são compridas, com o tarso muito 
curvado, tendo as articulações as seguintes dimensões : 
coxa, 162; femur com trochanter, 435; tibia, 403 ; 
tarso, 208; unha, 56. Os digitulos são filiformes. 
Hab. Soccorro, Estado de S. Paulo, em folhas 
e galhos de laranjeiras cultivadas. 
Icerya purchast Mask. The adult female, be- 
sinning to secrete the ovisac, is 4.20 mm. long, 
2.50 mm. wide and 1.10 mm. high. The body is 
ovate, being widest posterior of the middle. On the 
ventral surface it is colored orange yellow, with 
the antennae and legs chestnut. ‘The dorsal surface 
is yellowish with a gray tint, due to a fine waxy 
secretion that covers it. In the center of the dorsal 
surface there are several tufts of wax, and on the 
lateral margin there are about 24 tufts of long hairs, 
and many fine, long, waxy filaments. 
The ovisac is 5.20 mm. long on the dorsal 
surface, and 3 mm. long on the ventral surface, 
being smooth on this surface and longitudinally 
striate on the dorsum. 
The eggs are light yellow in color. 
In the adult female, boiled in a solution of 
KOH, the derm becomes soft and transparent. The 
entire surface of the body is ornamented with long, 
dark colored hairs, and with small and large, round 
componnd glands. 
The antennae are light brown in color, are 
from 882 to 1,017 microns long, and are composed 
(*) Todas as medidas das art'culações das antennas e 
pernas são indicadas em micromillimetros. 
