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ROBERT NEWSTEAD. 



Female, second stage. Elongate ovate. Antennae similar to those of the adult 

 but shorter. Cribriform plates in two examples arranged as follows ^ ^g ; they 

 are all approximately of the same size as the smallest in the adult. Marginal spines 

 like those of the adult, but much more widely separated. Anal lobes elongate, apex 

 with one very long hair and two to three much shorter ones. Anal ring of (?) eight 

 hairs. No trace of rudimentary legs. 



Fig. 3. Akermes andersoni, Newst., sp. n., $ ; a, adult $ ; 



h, antenna ; c, rudimentary leg ; d, stigmatic and marginal spines ; 



e. compound pore ; /, stigmata. 



Larva. Antennae of six segments ; 3rd the longest. Margin of body with long 

 equidistant hairs. Stigmatic spines three, the central one of great length, the 

 laterals minute. Anal lobes conspicuous, each with an immense seta, and one or 

 two small ones. Anal ring with six hairs. Cribriform plates absent. 



British East Africa: Kabete, on orange leaves (heavy infestation), i.l914 

 {T. J. Anderson). 



One has experienced no little difficulty in assigning this remarkable Coccid to its 

 proper generic position ; but as it fits best into Cockerell's genus Akermes* I have 

 placed it there provisionally. In some respects it agrees with Hemilecanimn, Newst. ,f 

 but in this the anal cleft is obsolete and the compound pores are present in all stages. 



♦Canad. Ent. XXXV, pp. 89-90 (1902). 

 t Jour. Econ. Biol. Ill, p. 39, pi. iv (1908). 



