XXX. NOTES ON INDIAN COCCIDAE OF 



THE SUB-FAMIIvY DIASPIDINAE, WITH 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. 



5y E.Ernest Green. F.E.S., F.Z.S. 



(Plates XXVI— XXXI). 



Since the publication of my last enumeration of Coccidae 

 from the Continent of India {■ Mem. Dep. Ag. Ind.' Ent. Ser., II, 

 No. 2, Ap. 1908), many fresh records have accumulated, including 

 a considerable number of undescribed species. The present paper 

 deals with those belonging to the sub-family Diaspidinae. describ- 

 ing the new species land listing others that have not previously 

 been recorded from India. Of the fifty species now added to the 

 Indian list, twenty are here described for the first time. It is only 

 to be expected that, in such a vast and (in this respect) unex- 

 plored region, we can have touched no more than the fringe of the 

 subject. Every fresh parcel that I receive discloses one or more 

 novelties. 



I am indebted to T. V. Ramakrishna Aiyar, of the Agri- 

 cultural College, Coimbatore, for repeated consignments of valu- 

 able and interesting material. I have also had the privilege of 

 examining collections from the Indian Museum, from the Agricul- 

 tural Research Institute (Pusa), from the Forest Zoologist (Dehra 

 Dun) and from the Poona Agricultural College. 



Diaspis cinnamomi-mangifcrae, Newst. 

 (Pi. XXVI, fig. i^). 



Female puparium thin, semitranslucent, whitish, circular. 

 Dried insect pallid : probably yellowish in life. Form similar to 

 that of D. rosae : the thoracic area broad, the abdominal area con- 

 stricted. Pygidium with median lobes smaller, narrower, and less 

 divergent than in rosae. 



On Mangifera indica : Bangalore [Ramakrishna, No. 114). 



Diaspis loranthi, Green, 



(PI. XXVI, fig. ig). 



On Loranthiis cordijoHus : Paresnath, Bihar, 4000 ft. {Ind. 

 Mus. No. 71). Differs iromrosae in the larger, more prominent and 

 more rounded median lobes, which extend far beyond the lateral 

 lobes. Dr. Annandale writes of this species, " It has perhaps 



