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Pupa (fig. 10) yellow; eyes and parts of the thorax 

 reddish crimson ; sheaths of legs and antennae glassy. 

 Abdomen terminating with three pointed tubercles. 



Long, 1*50-2 mm. 



Puparium of male (fig. 11) glassy white, but it 

 appears to be shaded with bottle-green when fixed to 

 the green leaf of the food-plant. Anal cleft normal. 

 The central " coronet " is composed of double carinse, 

 and is bifurcated in front or V-shaped, the arms extend- 

 ing to the outer margin ; central, enclosed area, linear, 

 convex, and segmented ; there is a central pair of 

 transverse caringe, and a second pair extending from 

 near the posterior extremity of the coronet, and pro- 

 jected backwards. 



Long, 1*50-2 mm. 



Ova white. 



Larva pale yellow. Details as in Lecanium, including 

 the anal ring of six hairs. 



Habitat. On ivy (Hedera helix) and laurustinus 

 (Viburnum tinus). In this country the species is 

 partial to the ivy, and apparently prefers that which 

 covers walls and buildings, but I have received it from 

 ivy taken from the ground at the bottom of a hawthorn 

 hedge. 



Mr. G. C. Bignell first discovered the species at 

 Stonehouse, Devon, and the specimens formed the 

 subject of a long article by Mr. Douglas.* It has 

 subsequently been found in great abundance at Llandaff 

 (Tomlin) ; at Bangor, North Wales (F. V. Dutton) ; I 

 found it abundant at Painswick, Gloucestershire ; and 

 more sparingly at King's Langley and Tring, Herts. 

 My friend Mr. Thomas Shepheard, of Bournemouth, 

 is the only person who has found the species on 

 laurustinus in this country, and he informs me that it 

 is very common in his district, where he also finds it 

 upon ivy. 



Habits. The eggs are laid about the middle of May, 

 during the formation and shortly after the completion 



* ' Ent. Mo. Mag./ vol. xxiv, p. 167 (1887). 



