ERIOPELTIS. 21 



The perfect male, which Signoret described from dead 

 specimens, does not apparently possess any salient 

 generic character, and much resembles the males of 

 the genus Lecanium, but the wings are unusually long. 



Should the male puparium of Lecanopsis prove to be 

 of a similar character to that of Eriopeltis, the two 

 genera would, I think, have to be united, and in that 

 case the former genus would have priority. 



ERIOPELTIS FESTUC^ (Fonscolombe). 

 (PI. XXXVIII, figs. 1-10.) 



Coccus festucde, Boyer de Fonscolombe ; Ann. de la 

 Soc. Entom. de France, tome 3, pi. iii, fig. 9, p. 

 216 (1834). 



Eriopeltis festucse (Fonscolombe), Signoret; Essai, p. 

 184, pi. vi, fig. 3. 



Eriopeltis Lichtensteinii, Signoret ; Essai, p. 445. 



Adult female in life pale dusky yellow, or dusky 

 mauve. After treatment with potash (figs. 2, 3) very 

 elongate, and narrowest in front (in life clypeate) ; anal 

 cleft moderately deep ; lobes as in Lecanium. Antennae 

 (figs. 6, 6<x, 6b) very small and atrophied, normally 

 of seven joints, but owing to certain joints being 

 more highly chitinised and darker than others, the 

 true articulations are not easily traced ; there is also 

 a range in the relative length of the joints, the usual 

 formula being 2, 3 (4, 5), 7, 6, 1; apical joint with 

 several short hairs, and there are usually one or two 

 on the fifth and sixth joints. Legs (fig. 7) atrophied, 

 extremely short and tapering towards the claw, but 

 all the parts are present, viz. coxa, trochanter, 

 tibia, and tarsus; the tarsal joint (fig. 7 a) is a very 

 little shorter than the tibia; digitules to claw gradu- 

 ally widening towards the apex, those of the tarsus 

 faintly knobbed. Dermis above almost covered with 

 large, conical, truncate spines (figs. 4, 5). During par- 



