Adult female creamy white. 



Length 2-3 millimetres. Breadth 0-8-1 millimetre. 



Male puparium smaller and narrower with sides nearly parallel, 

 pellicle occupying about one-third of the length. A distinct hinge 

 towards the posterior extremity. Colour dark brown. 



Length 1-5 millimetres. Breadth 0-4 millimetre. 



HOST PLANTS. 



Kutaceae Citrus spp. 



PART OF PLANT ATTACKED. 

 Leaves, fruits, and stems! 



REMARKS. 



This scale is very common on CITRUS trees in the north of the 

 Delta, but so far has not spread down to the big citrus-growing areas 

 in Qalyubiya and Minufiya. By an Arrete dated October 16, 1920, 

 the Governorates of Alexandria, Rosetta, Damietta, and Port Said 

 were declared infected areas and the transport of CITRUS trees or their 

 fruits if attacked by this pest was prohibited from the areas indicated 

 to any place in Egyptian territory outside the said areas. 



The fumigation campaign against the Black Scale should prevent 

 this pest from becoming of any great economic importance. 



47. Lepidosaphes (Mytilaspis) ficus Sign. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY : Newstead, Mon. Brit. Cocc., Vol. i, p. 202. 



Puparium of adult female elongate, generally curved, narrower 

 and less dilated at the posterior extremity than L. beckii Newm. 

 Colour dark brown paling slightly towards the posterior extremity. 

 First pellicle yellowish brown or orange brown, second pellicle orange 

 brown generally obscured by the dark brown secretionary matter. 



Average length of female puparium 2 millimetres. 



Microscopic preparations of specimens collected so far in this 

 country do not show the " four additional long slender tubular spin- 

 nerets on each side of the meson " described by Newstead (loc. cif..). 



HOST PLANTS. 



Moraceaa Ficus carica (Edible Fig). 



PART OF PLANT ATTACKED. 

 The young branches. 



