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the extremity scarcely projecting, deeply incised on each side near the base ; margin 

 with a pair of narrow median lobes between which are two narrow squames, laterad 

 are two squames, a lobe, three squames, and then three lobes ; squames slightly 

 fimbriate. The basal areas (beyond the incisions) each with three prominent angular 

 projections. There are two pairs of broad (but obscure) semilunar pores, occupying 

 the intervals between the median, second and third lobes, and communicating with 

 conspicuous tubular ducts (fig. 3, B). Breadth, 1-1-16 mm.; length, 0-75 mm. 



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Fig. 3. Aonidia obtusa, sp. n : A, nymphal pellicle, X 33 ; B, pygidial margin of same, X 223 ; 

 C, adult, X 50 ; D, pygidium of adult, x 150. 



Adult female broadly ovate, 0-S to 0-95 mm. broad, by 0-75 mm. long; 

 abdominal segments compressed but visible. Antennae rudimentary, composed of 

 a short curved spine situated on a tubercle. Mouth-parts strongly developed ; 

 area surrounding mouth and anterior spiracles more densely chitinised than the 

 rest of the body (fig. 3, C). Pygidium obtuse, without a vestige of lobes or other 

 processes ; and with several conspicuous sub-marginal pores (fig. 3, D). 



On VerschaffeUia splendida, Seychelles (P. R. Dupont). 



Four names may be added to the list of Coccidae already recorded from the 

 Seychelles. 



1. Ceroplastes rubens, Mask. 



On fern {Acrostichum sp.). Widely distributed in the Australasian region. 



2. Chionaspis subcorticalis, Green. 



On tomatoes, Astove Island, and on Sida sp.. Assumption Island, 

 recorded from Ceylon only. 



Hitherto 



3. Pinnaspis buxi, Bouche. 



On Pandanus seychellanim. Felicite Island ; also on Areca catechu. An almost 

 cosmopolitan species. 



