72 PULVINAEIA FLOCCTFERA. 



the outer one, which is curved towards the tip and 

 usually pointed. Dermis above (fig. 4) with numerous 

 irregular ovate pores or glands ; spinnerets on ventral 

 dermis (fig. 5) long and tubular, resembling those in 

 the Diaspinag. Dor sum immediately above anal lobes, 

 with three pairs of long, equidistant hairs, and there 

 is a group of shorter ones in the centre of the cephalic 

 area. Rostral loop not extending beyond insertion of 

 intermediate legs. 



Long, 2-3 mm. ; wide, l'50-2 mm. 



Ovisac of adult female (figs. 1, 2) very elongate, 

 from five to eight times the length of the adult insect, 

 straight or curved ; sometimes examples cross each 

 other, and when overcrowded form irregular masses of 

 white flocculent matter on the branches (fig. 1 ) and 

 leaves of the food-plant. 



Long, 511 mm. ; wide, 2 mm. 



Immature female (fig. 10) pale yellow, eyes piceous, 

 anal lobes reddish-brown, alimentary canal dusky 

 brown, showing through the integument in the form of 

 a long, irregular, narrow loop ; underside paler. 



Ova pink. 



Male. I have not observed this sex, although I 

 have found the species very abundant in many localities. 

 Mr. Douglas * briefly describes the male and its 

 puparium thus : " On January 29th last [1886] Mr. 

 Parfitt sent me from a greenhouse at Exeter a leaf of 

 camellia on the underside of which were several 

 yellowish, extremely flat, oval scales, but two of them 

 had a slightly raised brownish line down the middle. 

 They were so like the scales of Lecanium hesperidnm 

 that I deemed they were that species, which is found 

 on many different plants ; and having pinned down the 

 leaf so as to prevent its warping, I put them in a box 

 on one side. Looking at the leaf on February 23rd, I 

 saw that all the scales except two had dried and 

 become loose. Of the two one remained fixed, and 

 underneath was a developed male, dead and adherent 



* 'Ent. Mo. Mag./ vol. xxiii, p. 81 (1886). 



