PART OF PLANT ATTACKED. 



The leaves and young stems. 



REMARKS. 



Up to the present this species has only been found at Alexandria 

 where it is quite common on the Araucarias. 



7. Lecaniodiaspis africana Newst. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY: Newstead. Bull. Ent. Res., 1911, p. 100. 



Young adult female dusky red-brown, brown, or smoky brown, 

 generally protected by a thin coating of grey or ochreous and somewhat 

 granular secretion. Rather elongated and shaped somewhat like 

 a lecanium ; dorsum with a very pronounced keel, at the base of 

 which is a regular series of short transverse ridges, interrupted in 

 the centre by a deep longitudinal groove. 



The female ovisac is veiy closely felted and straw-coloured. 

 Form short ovate and very highly convex ; posterior half with a 

 faint trace of a short median ridge, but this is, in old examples, more 

 or less broken up into a series of faint tubercular projections ; on 

 cither side of the central ridge are a number of transverse ridges, 

 varying in intensity according to the age of the individual, but in 

 all cases they are interrupted centrally, and in old examples they are 

 often represented merely by minute tubercular projections. 



The above is part of the original description given by Newstead 

 (loc. clt.). 



Male puparium white or cream coloured elongated oval. Length 

 of adult female 3-5-4 millimetres. Length of ovisac 5 millimetres. 

 Length of male puparium 1-5-2 millimetres. 



HOST PLANTS. 



Leguminosau Acacia arabica (Sunt). 



Moracese Ficus spp. 



PART OF PLAJJT ATTACKED. 

 The stems. 



REMARKS. 



This species is not very common, but is widely distributed in 

 Egypt. It was originally described by Mr. Newstead from material 

 collected by Mr. Willcocks in Egypt. 



