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greyish and very brittle puparia, such examples agreeing very closely with Morgan's 

 description.* The healthy females had pale orange-brown puparia and were much 

 tougher than those which were parasitised ; these, though paler, are clearly referable 

 to the var. arecae, Newst. In the light of this discovery one feels that Morgan's 

 examples may also have been parasitised, and if this Avere so, my var. areate must 

 sink. It may be interesting to add that the parasitised puparia show no external 

 signs of the fungus apart from the colour, and when examined microscopically little 

 trace of hyphae could be found ; on the other hand the females showed a very heavy 

 infestation. 



nov. 



Aspidiotus (Chrysomphalus) erythraspidis, sp. 



Female pupariuni. More or less circular or iriegularly ovate, moderately convex, 

 surface more or less roughened by the fibres of the plant upon which it was fixed. 

 Pale brownish buff or greyish bufE, sometimes with slightly darker lines of growth. 



Fig. 22. As2)ldiotus erythraspidis, Newst... sp. n. ; 

 pygidium of $. 



Underside blackish, margin similar in colour to the exterior. Pellicles central, sub- 

 central or submarginal, black ; the secretionary covering greyish, but usually absent 

 from the larval pellicle. Greatest diameter, r7-2'l mm. 



Male puparium. Dark brown or brownish black, margin paler ; larval pellicle 

 black, with a narrow, but sharply defined, concentric ring of white secretion. Shape 

 normal. 



Female, adult. Pyriform, with the pygidium strongly produced and somewhat 

 pointed ; thoracic area with a very faint tubercular projection, which almost entirely 

 disappears under pressure. Rudimentary antennae with three spines ; one very 



* Ent. Mo. Mag., xxv, p. 352, pi. v, fig. 2 (1889). 



