56 PULVINARIA VITIS, YAK. KIBESUE. 



Female at period of fecundation (third stage) (PL 

 XL VI, figs. 13, 14) slightly elongate, and sometimes 

 widened posteriorly. Colour dusky yellow, median 

 line brighter, reticulations dark brown and usually 

 very distinct ; underside pale dusky yellow ; eye-spots, 

 antennae, and legs dusky. Antennae of seven joints, 

 of which the third, fourth, and seventh are longest ; 

 formula (3, 4), 7, 2, 1 (5, 6). Legs and rostral fila- 

 ments as in the adult female. 



Long, 2-3 mm. 



Male (PL XL VII, fig. 7) dusky reddish-crimson, 

 scutellum and ovate space above apodema paler; 

 head, dorsal scute of meso thorax, and apodema 

 blackish-crimson, the last-named the darkest ; upper 

 iiervure of wing and part of space within it and the 

 costa pale crimson ; eyes and ocelli black, shining, 

 the former large and placed immediately above the 

 genae ; the ocelli (PL XLV1I, fig. 7 a) in a single pair 

 on the ventral surface, low down near the articulation 

 with the neck. Genae very prominent, giving the 

 head a somewhat diamond-shaped outline. Antennae 

 (PL XL VII, fig. 7 b) of ten joints, of which the first 

 and second are somewhat rounded, the third claviform, 

 fourth, fifth, and sixth longest, the remaining four 

 similar in character, but shorter; apical joint (PL 

 XL VII, fig. 7 c) with 5-6 clubbed hairs ; and there 

 are numerous simple hairs on all the joints. Near the 

 insertion of the antennas is a minute blunt spine of 

 angular projection. Legs (PL XL VII, fig. 7 e) thickly 

 set with hairs, and with one long and one short spiny 

 hair at the tibio-tarsal articulation ; digitules to claw 

 and tarsi slightly dilated. Anal segment (PL XLVII, 

 fig. 7 <]) with two large projecting tubercles thickly 

 set with rather long hair ; the two caudal setae, for 

 attachment of the waxy filaments, about half the 

 length of the genital armature ; the latter compara- 

 tively short, triangular in section, and flattened towards 

 the apex, where it is furnished with minute hairs. 



Long-, including caudal filaments, 23 mm. 



