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ROBERT NEWSTEAD. 



relatively straight and longer than the outer edge ; a series of submarginal hairs, 

 usually five, on the inner edge ; tips with two or three similar hairs ; ventral 

 selerites conspicuous. Anal ring with six very stout hairs, and on either side^a single, 

 very long hair. Dorsal glands with circular pores extending in a relatively })road 

 band between the anal lobes and the rostrum, and continuous along the outer edge 

 of the lobes. Stigma tic clefts (fig. 6, d) invaginated and asymmetrical, the three 

 spines pushed to the lower side of the enclosed space. Derm glands at the margin 

 irregularly ovate, and arranged more or less m radial bands. Venter with a broad, 



Fig. 6. Lecanium pseudotessellatum, Newst., sp. n. $ ; a, antenna ; 

 b, leg ii. ; c, anal lobes ; d, stigmatic cleft. 



continuous, submarginal zone of tubular gla-nds. Marginal hairs very long and 

 generally markedly curved somewhat like a fish-hook. Old examples completely 

 covered with a dense soot-like fungus. 



Length, averaging, 3-7 mm. 



Male. Head, thoracic selerites and costa of wings, pale castaneous ; apodeme 

 piceous ; abdomen and legs pale brick-red. 



Male puparium. Glassy ; relatively very broadly ovate ; divided into three 

 bilateral, one cephalic and two median plates, the inner edges of the ridge dividing 

 the median from the lateral plates finely but distinctly crenulated. 



Length, 2 -2-2 -3 mm ; width, r5-l-6 mm. 



Trinidad : Aripo Savana, on Chrysobalanus pellocarpus, Mey., ii. 1915 {W. A. 

 Freeman, per F. W. Urich). 



