22 EEIOPELTIS FESTUC^E. 



turition the centre of the body becomes deeply folded 

 or wrinkled, but the cephalic extremity retains in- 

 definitely its clypeate character. Colour after death, 

 dusky ochreous. 



Long (after treatment with potash), 4-5 mm. 



Long (after parturition), 2-4 mm. 



Ovisac of female (figs. 1, la, 1&) often claviform, 

 narrowest at the anterior extremity, flat beneath and 

 highly convex or rounded above ; composed of thick 

 white woolly filaments, numbers of which in fresh 

 examples (figs. 1, 1 a) project and stand erect from the 

 woven mass, often to a length of 6-7 mm.; but these 

 soon disappear, and the ovisac in their absence appears 

 to be more closely felted. During parturition the 

 female occupies the narrow extremity of the ovisac, the 

 cephalic portion of the body being uncovered and pro- 

 jecting beyond it. After parturition the female falls 

 to the ground, leaving a circular opening for the exit 

 of the larvae. 



Long, 5-1 mm. ; wide, 2-4 mm. 



Male. Signoret's description was made from dead 

 specimens, which he restored in potash. The antenna 

 and legs are apparently normal, and there are two long 

 white caudal filaments, as in Lecanium. The genital 

 armature is of a uniform width from the base to near 

 the apex, where it is suddenly dilated and pointed, 

 giving it the appearance of a long lance. The wings 

 are ample and as long again as the body. 



Larva (fig. 8, after treatment with potash) dark 

 orange ; very elongate. Antennae (fig. 10) of six 

 joints, of which the third is much the longest, formula 

 3, 6 (4, 5), 2, 1; on the. third joint are one long and 

 one short hair, and on the sixth a very long one and 

 four to six shorter ones. Legs (fig. 9) nearly twice 

 the length of the antennae ; there is a long hair on the 

 coxa, two arise from the centre of the tibia, and two 

 very short ones from the centre of the tarsus ; digi- 

 tules to claw and tarsus scarcely dilated at apex. 

 Eostrum very large (see fig. 8) ; mentum very broad and 



