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Adult female dark purplish green. 

 Length of female puparium 0-5-1-25 millimetres. 

 Male puparium narrow elongate with parallel sides opaque white. 

 Pellicle dark green. 



Length 0-5-0-75 millimetre. 



HOST PLANTS. 



Acanthacese Justida alba. 



Leguminosae Albizzia lebbekh, Bauhinin sp. 



PART OP PLANT ATTACKED. 

 The young stems. 



REMARKS. 



I have only collected this species at Luxor and Beni Suef in 

 Upper Egypt. Marlatt, in describing it (foe. cit.), states that he collected 

 it in Cairo in 1902 on an unknown plant in conjunction with P. affinis 

 Newst.=P. calianthina Berl e Leon. Mr. Marlatt remarks that "the 

 Egyptian variety differs slightly in the exterior serration of the median 

 lobes, these serrations or notches being reduced to two or three instead 

 of four or more, and the central lobular projection is somewhat larger. 

 The paragenitals also are less abundant, ranging as follows : 0, 

 0-3, and 1-2." Preparations from my material confirm the above 

 remarks. 



Newstead has described a species, Chionaspis longispina (Bull. 

 Ent. Res. 1911, p. 88), from material sent by Mr. Willcocks from 

 Cairo. This species is most certainly synonymous with Parlatoria 

 chinensis Marlatt, and the name should be sunk. The diagram which 

 I give of P. chinensis is drawn from a large number of preparations 

 from specimens on Lebbekh. It will be seen that it agrees almost 

 identically with Newstead's figure (loc. cit.). Mr. Willcocks has also 

 given me some of the material from which Newstead originally 

 described C. longispina, and there can be no doubt that it is Parlatoria 

 chinensis Marlatt. The description as given by Newstead fits perfectly 

 except that there are usually two or three parastigmatic glands. 



It may be that this synonymy has already been pointed out. but 

 I have not been able to trace any reference to it in the literature. 



56. Parlatoria proteus Curtis. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY : Newstead, Mon. Brit. Cocc., Vol. i, p. 140. 



Puparium of adult female elongate, ovate, only very slightly 

 convex and usually narrowing towards the posterior extremity ; 



