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Fig. 5. Ovisac of young adult on slender stem of 



bamboo. X 15. 

 PL LXII, fig. 6. Adult female after treatment with. 



potash (ventral). X 20. 

 Fig. 7. Anal extremity of adult female with anal 



lobes and anal orifice. X 140. 

 Fig. 8. Marginal spinnerets of adult female. X 600. 

 Fig. 9. Rudimentary antenna of adult female. 



X 600. 



Fig. 10. Rostrum of adult female. X 140. 

 Fig. 11. Larva after treatment with potash, x 100. 

 Fig. 12. Antenna of the embryo larva. X 300. 

 Fig. 13. Leg of the embryo larva, x 300. 

 Fig. 14. Leg of the second-stage larva, x 300. 

 Fig. 15. Antenna of the second-stage larva, x 300. 



ASTEEOLECANIUM THESII (Douglas). 



(PL LXI, figs. 6-8; PL LXII, figs. 16-18.) 



Poliinia thesii, Douglas; Ent. Mo. Mag., s.s., vol. iv, 

 p. 55, figs. 1-4 (1893). 



Ovisac of the adult female (PL LXI, figs. 6, 7) 

 " pale yellow or dingy brown, smooth, slightly shining, 

 very hard and convex, subovate, broadest in front, 

 posteriorly more or less produced, the prolongation 

 flattened and narrowed to an obtuse or bifid end (this 

 is more evident on the insect beneath) ; anal aperture 

 situate at the margin, small, round, emitting a tuft 

 of delicate glassy filaments; . . . dorsum with a 

 median longitudinal, mane-like row of upright or 

 curled, delicate, flossy, white filaments of unequal 

 height, disposed in 5-6 adjacent tufts, and arising out 

 of the integument ; margin with a projecting fringe 

 (PL LXI, tig. 8) of fine, distinct, glassy, hair-like 

 filaments disposed in two series, those of the upper one 

 not so close together as the lower. . . . The underside 



