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specimens both from tea and cacao show the flagellum mostly dark, some with the 

 apex ouly dark. Eyes large, black. Legs moderately long and thick ; femora mostly 

 dark, especially the hind pair ; tibiae pallid, except at the apices ; tarsi dark ; 

 apices of femora with a few short hairs and many on the tibiae. Wings (fig. 2) nmch 

 longer than body ; tinged with yellowish brown and dull reddish-brown, paler in 

 those from cacao ; stigma large and very dark, almost black, in those from all three 

 host plants ; veins yellowish brown ; venation subject to some variation (fig. 2, 

 A and b) in each lot sent me. Cornicles (fig 1, c) black, cylindrical, slightly 

 expanding basally, imbricated, nearly as long as the fourth antennal segment. 

 Cauda (fig. 1, b) black, spinose, from a little under one-third to over one-third the 

 length of cornicles, in a few nearly the same length ; somewhat bluntly acuminate, 

 wth several longish hairs; blimtly conical in a few, owdng to retraction. Anal 



Fig. 2. Wings of Toxopiera coffeae, .showing 



two forms which occur in specimens from 



both tea and cacao. 



plate black. A small, but prominent papilla on each side between the cornicles 

 and Cauda (fig. 1, f), one on each side of pronotum (fig. 1, g), one between the 

 second and third pair of legs, and one between the third and the cornicles. Yentrally 

 the mesosternmn is black and the coxae markedly so, and in some specimens narrow 

 transverse dark bands on venter of abdomen ; from the hind coxae arises a black 

 line on 'each side running to near the end of the abdomen, which has a dark ventral 

 apical plate. Cuticle in front more or less sculptured with hexagonal markings, 

 near the cornicles with Hnear-marked close ornamentation, varying dorsally and 

 ventrally (fig. 3). 



Apterous viviparous female. 



Dark brownish to deep green (a few seem to be a paler green), globose, shiny. 

 Head to some extent flattened in front, in some slightly or prominently raised at 

 the base of the antennae and in the middle. The abdomen, which may be paler 



