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AULOICERYA ACACIAE, new species. 
Adult female.—Specimens originally preserved in a fluid which has 
evaporated, so nothing can be stated as to the normal secretionary 
covering of the insect; the shriveled insects strongly wrinkled, with 
the margin distinctly flattened, and a more or less pronounced hollow 
beneath; general color of body blackish brown, the thin margins very 
much lighter, pale reddish brown, translucent; legs and antennae 
black; body oval, evidently strongly convex in life; length flattened 
on slide about 8 mm., width about 6 mm.; derm retaining a faint 
Fic, 12.—AULOICERYA ACACIAE, NEW SPECIES. A, ADULT FEMALE, OUTLINE FROM BELOW, X7.5; 
B, ADULT FEMALE, DISK PORES, X1,500; C, LARVA, DORSAL AND VENTRAL, X57.5; D, LARVA, 
VENTRAL PORE, X1,500; E, ADULT FEMALE, DISK PORE, X1,500; F, LARVA, DORSAL SETA, X220; 
G, ADULT FEMALE, CLAW, X220; H, LARVA, CLAW, X220; I, ADULT FEMALE, ANTENNA, X57.5; 
J, LARVA, DISK PORE, X1,500; K, LARVA, ANAL TUBE, X500. 
yellowish tinge after treatment with potassium hydroxide; antennae 
normally 11-segmented, the basal cylindrical, the intermediate indis- 
tinctly moniliform, the apical elongate and longest, color blackish 
brown, even after treatment; legs moderately large, rather stout, 
darker than antennae, trochanters with two special pores on each 
face, with relatively few hairs, and the tibia and tarsus beneath with 
a few spines, each stout at base but tapering to an acute apex; beak 
short and stout, tapering, number of segments not determinable; 
with the usual two pairs of thoracic spiracles, the posterior somewhat 
larger and more expanded at inner and outer ends, and each with a 
