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numbers; (2) long tubular glands (fig. 1, b) thickly disposed over the venter; 

 (3) irregular ovate glands, with minute obscurely 8-shaped pores, collectively forming 

 a faint polygonal reticulation dorsally ; (4) relatively large and irregularly lobate 

 glands (fig. 1, c) extending from the anal lobes to the rostrum on both sides of the 

 median line ; and (5) a regular submarginal series of very large tubular glands 

 (fig. 1, d) each with an iimer, somewhat flask-shaped tube ; of these there are eleven 

 on one side and twelve on the other ; in many instances they are placed opposite 

 a faint depression in the margin. A median strip of dark chitin extends from the 

 rostrum to the anus. Anal lobes with the basal and outer margin in one continuous 

 curve, inner edge straight. Anal cleft short, open. 



Fig. 1, Platysaissetia carpenter i, 



Newst., sp. n., $ ; a, antenna ; 



b, c, d, glands and pores. 



. Length, 2-1 mm. ; width, 1'7 mm. 



Uganda : Ngamba Is., on the trunk of a fig tree, 16.V.14 {Dr. G. D. H. Carpenter). 



The adult female differs from P. castilloae (Ckll. ) in having the anal lobes (operculum) 

 placed near the centre of the dorsum, and in the presence of dorsal radial striae. 

 The second stage female differs in the larger number of submarginal glands. 



Platysaissetia ferox. sp. nov. 



Fenuile, adult. Dorsal area with rather conspicuous, granular, amber-yellow 

 patches of secretion arranged, more or less, in concentric and narrowly ovate rings. 

 Pseudo-margin with a series of toothlike, glassy appendages, varying in colour from 

 amber-yellow to translucent grey ; there are 10-12 of these appendages on either 

 side. 



