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hardly shorter ; 6 is a little shorter than 4 and 5 together, and bears 

 some very long hairs. Caudal setre rather long. Legs well developed, 

 digitules filiform, distinctly knobbed. 



$ sac white, elongate, of loosely woven cottony filaments, as in 

 the Dactylopiinae ; length slightly over 2 mm. The <? sacs occur on 

 the upper side of the leaves. 



$ . Adult. Thorax brownish yellow, abdomen clear light lemon- 

 yellow : length of the body about f mm. ; wings very large and 

 ample, length almost li mm. ; two very long white caudal filaments, 

 about 1^- mm. long ; genital spike pyramidal, not very much longer 

 than broad (instead of being greatly elongated as in Capulinia jabo- 

 ticabce) ; thorax much broader than abdomen ; femur stout ; tibiae 

 slender, enlarged at end, longer than femur, with a stout terminal 

 spine ; tarsus short, about one-third the length of tibia, with a long 

 slender claw. The $ is described from specimens in the sacs, which 

 were just ready to emerge. 



Hab. On Eugenia sp., Campinas, Brazil, September, 1898 

 {Dr. F. Noack, No. 84). Dr. Noack writes that the adult 

 females, as seen alive, are clear green, in form and colour very 

 much like the young fruit of the Eugenia. The specimens 

 arrived (in a letter) squashed flat, and in that condition I could 

 not tell the females from the fruits. I boiled up several of the 

 green objects, and found I had some of the coccids among them ; 

 the liquid was stained a deep gamboge-yellow, I suppose by the 

 fruits. 



This new genus is allied to Capulinia and Cylindrococcus. 

 The larva resembles that of Cylindrococcus (Crocidocysta), but 

 that has only two spines on each side of the dorsal line, where 

 our insect has four ; the antennae also differ. It is to be noted 

 that Cylindrococcus (type C. casuarince) and Carpochloroides have 

 typically Eriococcine larvae, i.e. with dorsal spines and a com- 

 paratively short terminal antennal segment. On the other 

 hand, true Sphcerococcus (type S. casuarince) has a typically 

 Dactylopiine larva, with no dorsal spines and a long terminal 

 antennal segment. So also has Chcetoeoccus bambusce a Dactylo- 

 piine larva, without dorsal spines ; and the last antennal segment 

 in this species is considerably longer than 4 and 5 together, 

 while the others are subequal, 3 however being decidedly shorter 

 than 2. Antonina also appears to be a Dactylopiine. 



Note. — In my article on Sandwich Island Coccidae (vol. xxxi. 

 pp. 239, 240) Aspidiotis is misprinted all through " Asjndistus." 



MesiUa Park, New Mexico, U.S.A. : Oct. 29th, 1898. 



