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Mah, second stage (PL vi, fig. 5). Very elongate, translucent ochraceous-yellow, 

 margins darker or yellowish green, dorsal ridge rich dark brown ; anal lobes varying 

 from pale yellow to pale red. 



Male larva. Resembling that of the female but more elongate. Pale translucent 

 yellowish-green ; dorsal area ochraceous. Eyes black. 



Pupa (PI . vi, fig. 6). At first pale reddish-ochreous, later bright reddish-ochraceous. 

 Thorax darkening with age. Eyes purple-brown or dark red-brown. 



England : Bournemouth and Chester, on a date palm {Phoenix dactylifera), 

 25.xi.1904 {R. Newstead). 



Lecanium (Saissetia) hurae, sp. nov. 



Female, adult. Dried examples very irregular in shape, but the general outline 

 is somewhat hemispherical ; integument coarsely folded and indented ; margin 

 coarsely punctate ; surface glabrous. Colour pale dull brown to dull castaneous, 

 with irregular black spots, which are generally more numerous at the sides, more 



Fig. 13. Lecanium hurae, Xewst., sp. n., $ ; 



a, antenna ; 5, derm glands ; c, anal lobes ; 



d, stigmatic cleft. 



especially so in very old examples. After maceration in KOH the outline of the body 



is very broadly ovate with the ends almost equally rounded. Antennae (fig. 13, a) 



of eight segments, with a very long hair on the 3rd and 5th and a long slender spine 



(C3o7) d2 



