NOTES ON COCCIDAE. 



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Posterior extremity of embryonic larva (fig. 2, e) with two lobes, on each side of 

 which is a single deep cleft. Length of embryo, 0'5 mm. 



On fruit of " Coco de Mer " {Lodoicea secJiellarum). Praslin, Seychelles. 

 Lepidosaphes duponti, sp. nov. (fig. 3). 



Puparium of female (fig. 3, a) ochreous brown to dark brown. The older (and 

 darker) examples have the median longitudinal area flattened or even slightly concave, 

 the depressed area bordered on each side by a more or less well marked ridge which 

 is usually of a deeper colour than the other parts of the scale. Outside this ridge 

 the sides fall away sharply and then expand into a narrow flattened margin. Other 



Fig. 3. Lepidosaphes duponti. Green, sp. n. ; a, puparium of $; x 15; 

 b, pygidium of adult ?, X 280. 



examples do not show this marked depression, but the darker lateral bands are 

 indicated. The form may be approximately straight, or variously curved and 

 contorted. Length, 2 b to 3 mm. Greatest breadth approximately 1 mm. 



Male puparium paler, with traces of lateral darker bands : no median depression. 

 Length, 1 5 mm. 



Adult female of normal form : broadest across the base of the abdomen. Lateral 

 margins of abdominal segments moderately produced. Marginal area of metathorax 

 and abdomen with numerous small dorsal pores which are more thickly disposed 

 on the first two segments of the abdomen. Pygidium (fig. 3, b) with well developed 

 median and first lateral lobes, the latter being duplex, the inner lobule large and 

 broadly expanded, the outer lobule small and narrow. A broad cristate prominence 

 on each side, shortly beyond the lateral lobes. Pointed tubular squames in the usual 

 (C288) . G 



