20 LECANOPSIS EOBMICARUM. 



a member of the Coleoptera, although none was dis- 

 covered by Mr. Dale. 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 



PL XXXIX, fig. 6. Adult female from life (dorsal). 



x 8. 

 Fig. 7. Adult female after treatment with potash 



(ventral). x 10. 



Fig. 8. Antennae of adult female. X 140. 

 Fig. 9. Leg of the adult female. X 70. 

 Fig. 9 a. Tibio-tarsal joint of adult female, x 140. 

 Fig. 10. Spiracle of adult female. x 140. 



GENUS ERIOPELTIS (Signoret). 



The adult female of this genus is characterised 

 chiefly by its very short subrudimentary or atrophied 

 legs and antennae, and it is scarcely distinguishable 

 from that of Lr-canopsis. Signoret describes the female 

 as possessing six-jointed antennae, but, although many 

 individuals possess this number of joints, I find seven 

 to be the normal number. The male puparium is 

 described by Signoret* as waxy, and was found by 

 him on the haulm or stem of the food-plant (" Le male, 

 dont nous possedons plusieurs exemplaires trouves 

 sous les ecailles cirreuses que Ton observe quelquefois 

 sur le chaume de la plant"). This is extremely vague, 

 and leaves us in doubt as to its true character. In 

 describing two sacs of E.frsturse found by Mr. Bignell 

 in July, 1885, Mr. J. W. Douglas says,t "One of 

 them produced a male, the other was full of eggs." 

 Clearly, therefore, the male puparium resembles that 

 of the female, and is also composed of felted or woolly 

 material (wax), in which respect it evidently resembles 

 the male puparium of Aclerdd Berlesii. 



* ' Essai/ p. 1 85. 



f ' Ent. Mo. Mag./ vol. xxiv, p. 66 (1897). 



