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colour transparent white. First pellicle projects slightly beyond the 

 margin and is yellow, second pellicle large, almost circular, yellow 

 to brown, and occupies rather more than one-third of the entire 

 puparium. Adult female dark green, the sub-lying female being 

 apparent through the puparium. 



Length of puparium 1-1 -5 millimetres. Breadth 0-5-1 millimetre. 



Male puparium very elongate, sides parallel, white to straw 

 coloured. Pellicle pale yellow to dark green. 



Length 0-9 millimetre. 







HOST PLANTS. 



Palmacese On an unknown species of ornamental palm. 



REMARKS. 



Collected twice in Cairo only up to the time of writing. See 

 remarks under P. calianthina Berl e Leon. 



1 have not included in the above list Tachardia lacca Kerr. which 

 was introduced from India by Dr. Gongh in 1913. Sunt and Pigeon Pea 

 trees were infected in two or three gardens in Cairo, but unfortunately 

 it did not take very well. Trees in Egypt are remarkably scarce 

 and are chiefly confined to the vicinity of towns and villages and the 

 Sunt is the only indigenous tree that occurs in any numbers in the 

 provinces. As the insect in question did not take very well on Sunt, 

 if it was decided to initiate the Lac industry, it would mean planting 

 the host plants, and the expense of this makes it extremely improbable 

 that it would be economically sound. 



It might be as well here to mention the species originating from 

 other countries which have been detected at the Customs at the port 

 of entry. Two species of Parlatoria are frequently found on Citrus 

 fruits from other Mediterranean countries : P. pergandii Comst. and 

 P. zizyphus Lucas. Icerya seychellarum Westw. has been found on 

 bananas coming from Madagascar. A number of species occurring 

 in this country have also been detected as follows : 



Chr//so>ni>h<ilus donuiutii Linn. ... Banana Madagascar. 



Mango India. 



Lemon Cyprus, Greece, and 



Jaffa. 



Orange Turkey. 



Chrytomphatus aurantii Mask. ... Lemon Australia, Italy, Pa- 

 lestine, Greece, 

 Cyprus. 



