366 THE COCCIDAE 



tubae and brevaceratubae wanting; mesospiracerores and metaspira- 

 cerores present; anus and vulva located near cephalic end of pygidium; 

 pygidium of second nymphal female with pair of median lobes, project- 

 ing, lateral margins free, triangular in outline, confluent at proximal 

 end, second and third pairs of lobes much smaller, distal margin 

 notched at middle. Ceylon on Loranthus fodiens Green, 



SPECIES OF XANTHOPTHALMA 



Insects with body nearly circular, less than one-half millimeter in 

 length; caudal end of abdomen minutely serrate with three pairs of 

 serrate triangular lobe-like projections with setae at their distal ends, 

 arranged like lobes; anus located over three times its width from 

 caudal margin; female probably transforms in a puparium. Mexico 

 on "laureltree." concinnum Ckll. & Parr. 



SPECIES OF CREDODIASPIS 



Pygidium with adult female with median pair of lobes large, longer than 

 broad, distal end bluntly rounded, sides parallel; other lobes obsolete; 

 each lateris with three long dagger-shaped plates, largest adjacent to 

 each third lobe, smallest near middle of each lateris, other plate nearly 

 midway between cephalic and caudal plates, slightly nearer caudal; 

 spiracerores and genacerores wanting; two minute latadentes bearing 

 oraceratubae located between median pair of lobes and an oracera- 

 tuba on each side between two caudal plates; pygidium of second 

 nymphal female with four pairs of lobes, median pair oblique, mesal 

 margins with two or three indentations; second, third, and fourth 

 pairs of lobes quadrangular, subequal, entire; plates arranged 0, 1, 

 1, 1, 5, cephalic plate of each lateris similar in form to those of in- 

 cisurae, others broad, pointed, sides crenulate; oraceratubae located 

 in second, third, fourth incisurae and between two caudal plates of 

 each lateris. South Africa on Cynometra limuloides Lindgr. 



SPECIES OF ADISCODIASPIS 



Pygidium of adult female without lobes, setae, plates, or genacerores; 

 ceratubae short, numerous, arranged in a series or in a mass on the 

 pygidium and on the border of the segments of preabdomen; scale 

 rounded, ostreiform, white with yellow first exuvia, placed near per- 

 iphery, ventral scale thick and flat. France on Erica 



ericicola MarchaL 



