neiv Coccid^e/rom Mexico. 431 



distinctly longer than 3, 1 is nearly twice as broad as 2. 

 Coxa large, trochanter with numerous strong bristles, one 

 longer than the rest ; femur stout, with numerous short but 

 strong bristles and spines ; tibia about as long as femur, but 

 only about half as broad, the distal two-thirds on the inner 

 side beset with 8 pairs of short but strong spines ; tarsus 

 about two thirds length of tibia, with five pairs of spines on 

 the inner side; claw very long, thick, gently curved, no 

 knobbed digitules; in place of the claw-digitules are two 

 slender bristles ; skin colourless after boiling, delicately 

 striated, thickly beset with small round glands, between 

 which are minute hairs, not enough to make a definite pubes- 

 cence. In the abdominal region are a number of large round 

 and oval hyaline spaces, definitely circumscribed and having 

 the appearance of a nucleus and nucleolus in the middle; 

 these spaces are free from the small glands. Mouth-parts 

 well-developed. 



Cast skins of immature forms thin, white, suboval, 5 millim. 

 long, 4 broad, with antennse and legs attached. They occur 

 on the twigs. 



Hab. Misebac (?), Mexico, Aug. 13, 1897, on Acacia 

 Greggii (?), a thorny plant [Koebele). Div. Ent. 7877. 



With them occur certain large {^\ millim. long) Goccinellid 

 larvae, which look just like old females of Ortonia. 



Kermes grandisy sp. n. 



$ . — Globular, 10 millim. diara., not visibly segmented, 

 surface dull ; peppered or marbled with black, grey, and 

 white. With a lens the white areas are seen to be thickly 

 sprinkled with minute brown spots. The black and brown 

 marbling is quite irregular. 



Hah. Amecameca, Mexico, May 25, 1897, on Qaercus 

 Engelmanni {Koehele, 1756). Div. Ent. 7920. 



Only one specimen is available for study, but the species 

 is very distinct ; nearest to K. galliformis^ Riley. 



Tachardia julvoradiata, sp. n. 



$ . — Scale hemispherical, diameter about 3| millim. ; two 

 or more often united ; middle of dorsum somewhat depressed 

 and corrugated; sides with six irregular foot-like processes; 

 colour of scale dark orange-brown, varying in parts from light 

 orange to black ; three light reddish-orange bands or stripes 

 start from the centre and pass down the sides between the 

 lateral processes. 



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