CONCHASPJS ANGB^ICI. 3 



CONCHASPIS ANGE^CI (Cockerell). 

 (PL XXXV, figs. 1-10.) 



Conchaspis angr&ci, Cockerell; " Coccidae or Scale 



Insects," Bulletin Bot. Dept. Jamaica, Feb., 



1893, p. 9. 

 Pseudinglisia rodriguezide, Newstead ; Ent. Mo. Mag., 



s.s., vol. iv, p. 153, pi. ii, figs. 1, 1 a-l h 9 2, 



2 a, 3, 3 a-3 c, July, 1893. 



Puparium of adult female (figs. 1-3) approximately 

 circular, somewhat conical, apex bluntly pointed, 

 margins broad and flat ; radiating from the apex are 

 from six to eight strong ridges or carinae, many of 

 which disappear before reaching the centre between 

 the apex and margin. White, sub-opaque, the spaces 

 between the carinae and sometimes irregular bands 

 beyond them, darker, and of a more glass-like texture. 

 Ventral scale free, complete ; white, with sometimes a 

 central yellowish stain. 



Wide, 2-2-25 mm. ; high, '50-1 mm. 



Adult female (fig. 4) dark purplish-red, mottled with 

 lighter red; elongate-ovate, widely rounded in front, 

 gradually narrowed behind from the insertion of the 

 posterior pair of legs ; segmentation very distinct in 

 the living insect ; margins of the segments at the sides 

 and the cephalic margin with groups of slender hairs, 

 which gradually lengthen towards the anterior ex- 

 tremity. Byes large, tuberculate, projecting from the 

 margin, and concolorous with the body. Antennae 

 (fig. 7) of four nearly equal joints, formula usually 

 2, 3, 4, 1, but there is an amount of variation, and 

 young adults sometimes possess antennae of both four 

 and five joints ; apical joint usually with three short, 

 slender, spine-like hairs, and the first and second joint 

 with two or more very slender ones. Mentum bi- 

 articulate, apex furnished with hairs ; base of mentum 

 unusually broad. Legs (fig. 8) rather short and 



