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PULVINAKIA MESUMnUYANTII KML (Vallot). 



(PI. XLIX, figs. 1-7.) 



Coccus mesembryanthemi, Vallot ; Bull, de Ferussac, 



xxii, p. 469 (1830). 

 Qalypticus mesembrianthemi, Costa ; Ann. d. Acad. 



Asp. Nat. Naples, 273 (1844). 

 Palvinaria Uplicata, Targ.-Tozz.; Catl., p. 34 



(1868). 

 Pulvinaria mesembriantJiemi, Signoret; Essai, p. 



215. 

 Pulvinaria mesembryantJiemi, Douglas ; Ent. Mo. 



Mag., vol. xxiv, p. 24 (1887). 



Adult female (fig. 1)" ovate, yellowish brown, slightly 

 convex, with three or four strong corrugations across 

 the middle, often, however, in the most advanced 

 condition ; the dry scale (?) is also contorted or bent 

 backwards. Underneath, and projecting posteriorly, 

 is a large, long, white ovisac, smooth above, but other- 

 wise composed of loose, tangled, cottony filaments, 

 among which are the yellow eggs and larvae " (Douglas, 

 1. c.). Antennae (fig. 2) strong, of eight joints ; formula 

 3 (2, 4) 1, 8 (5, 6, 7); all the hairs unusually short. 

 Legs (fig. 3) strong; digital es to claw very broad and 

 strongly dilated at apex ; those of the tarsus ordinary. 

 Dennis above (fig. 5) with the oval pores widely 

 separated ; ventral dermis (fig. 6) with numerous, ex- 

 tremely short, tubular spinnerets, and others, very 

 long and widely separated, with the inner capitate 

 extremity shaped like the ungulate hoof of a deer. 

 Anal cleft rather deep ; lobes normal. Marginal spines 

 (fig. 7) very small, slender, and widely separated ; stig- 

 matic spines (fig. 7 a) about one third the length of 

 the former. Anal ring with eight hairs, of which one 

 pair is shorter than the rest. On the ventral surface, 

 anterior to the region of the anal lobes, are two pairs 



