226 COCCUS TOMENTOSUS. 



Figs. 2, 2 a. Antennas of adult female. X 140. 

 Fig. 3. Leg of adult female (minus the broad 



coxa). X 140. 

 Figs. 4, 4 a, 4 b. Portions of dorsal dermis with 



truncate spines and grouped spinnerets. X 300. 

 Fig. 5. Dorsal grouped spinnerets. X 600. 

 Fig. 6. Ventral dermis with small spinnerets. X 



300. 



Fig. 7. Male. X 35. 

 Fig. 8. Fourth and fifth joints of male antenna. 



X 140. 



Fig. 9. Apical joint of male antenna, x 140. 

 Fig. 10. Anterior tarsus of male. X 140. 

 Fig. 11. Larva (dorsal). X 150. 

 Fig. 12. Larva (ventral). X 150. 

 Fig. 13. Antenna of larva. X 300. 

 Fig. 14. Tarsus of larva. X 300. 

 Fig. 14 a. Dorsal spine of larva. X 600. 

 Fig. 15. Insects (male and female) natural size in 



situ on portion of food-plant. 



ORTHEZIBO;. 



Males with compound eyes ; abdomen furnished with 

 a pencil of long filaments. 



Adult females active ; more or less covered with 

 plates or lamella of waxy secretion, those at the 

 posterior extremity of the body forming a marsupium 

 or ovisac ; antennas of from four to nine joints ; legs 

 normal or with the tibio-tarsal joint united ; anal 

 orifice setif erous, dorsal ; anal lobes absent ; spiracles 

 sometimes present on the abdomen, as well as on the 

 ventral surface of the thoracic area. 



Larvas resembling the females in the arrangement 

 of the cereous covering, legs, and anal orifice. Antennas 

 of from four to six joints. 



Few forms there are among the Coccidas that can in 

 any way claim the title of beauty, for, like other sub- 

 families of the Homoptera, it is the curious and gro- 



