On a Collection of Coceidae and Aleurodidae, of the Berlin Zoologieal Museum. 161 
Stictococcus dimorphus, Newstead. 
Bull. African. Ent. Research Committee Vol. I. p. 63 figs 1, 2, London 1910. 
Habitat: D. Ost-Afrika, Langenburg, 7. Mai 1899, Gebirge, bewaldet, 1200 m, 
Dr. Fülleborn. 
Asterolecanium coffeae n. sp. (Newstead). 
Puparium („test“) of young adult female. Golden yellow'), glassy; pyriform, 
being produced posteriorly into a distinet spout-like prominence; dorsum with a faint 
fusiform ridge; margin with a very long loose fringe of glassy filaments; there is also 
a median mane-like erest of equally long filaments extendig along the whole length 
of the puparium, and between the crest and the marginal fringe many, more or less, 
isolated filaments; all the filaments are of a golden yellow colour. 
Puparium of old adult female, without either fringe or dorsal crest of filaments; 
larger and more convex and the spout-like posterior more pronounced than in those 
of the young adults; the dorsal fusiform ridge is also less prominent anteriorly. 
Colour opaque greyish, flnely vermieulated with obscure bottle-green markings. This 
Fig. +a—c. Asterolecanium coffeae. 
diagnosis is based upon a single specimen so that too much importance must not 
be attached to the characters here given. 
Length of young adult puparia, inclusive of fringe, 1,50—2 mm. 
Length of old adult puparium, 1,75 mm. 
Adult female pyriform, posterior extremity (fig. 4a) suddenly narrowed and 
produced. Margin with two rows of figure-of-8 spinnerets and also a number of 
others arranged irregularly along the submarginal area; first marginal row placed 
closely together; second marginal row widely separated. Median dorsal figure-of-8 
spinnerets in five rows; the median three placed rather closely together but somewhat 
irregular; those forming the outer lateral rows very widely separated. In addition 
to the 8-shaped spinnerets there is a distinet marginal row of cireular ones; and 
numerous long tubular ones scattered over the whole of the dorsal surface. 
Rudimentary antennae (fig. 4b) disc-like with two long curved spinose hairs. 
Anal lobes (fig. 4a) represented by a single long spine. Anal ring (orifice) with six 
long hairs. Mentum short and apparently monomerous. Spiracle (Fig. 4c) with a 
very large subeutaneous tube. 
1) This deseription is based upon examples which had been dried after long emersion in 
aleohol, and applies to the puparium proper, and not to the colour produced by the sublying 
insect. R.N. 
