242 NEWSTEADIA. 



typic. It was erected by Mr. Green * so recently as 

 December, 1902. I had long prior to this discovered 

 the remarkable characteristics of Orthezia floccosa, and 

 in consequence had decided to make it the type of a 

 new genus. With reference to the antennas, Mr. Green 

 says that the." terminal joint is apparently composed of 

 two fused joints, forming a scape-like termination; the 

 antennae thus consisting of seven distinct joints as 

 opposed to eight in the other species. . . . Another 

 remarkable character in floccosa is the very long basal 

 joint of the antenna." In ascribing seven joints to the 

 antennae Mr. Green has evidently overlooked the true 

 character of the third joint, which, although deeply 

 constricted in the centre, is not articulated ; the con- 

 striction, however, so exactly simulates a joint that it 

 may be easily mistaken as such. 



NEWSTEADIA FLOCCOSA (De Geer). 

 (PL LXXIV, figs. 1-15.) 



Coccus ftoccosus, De Geer; Mem., vii, p. 604, 9, 



pl/xliv, fig. 26 (1778). 

 Dorthesia floccosa, Kirby and Spence ; Intr. Ent., 



iii, p. 138. 

 Orthezia normani, Douglas; Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 



1881, p. 300, pi. xv, figs. 12-15. 

 Orthezia (Newsteadia) floccosa (De Geer), Green; 



Ent. Mo. Mag., s.s., vol. xiii, pp. 284, 285 



(1902). 



Adult female (figs. 1-3) with the body and legs pale 

 yellowish, darkening with age. Cereous covering 

 pure white ; " frontal node obtusely angulated, the 

 margins usually recurved so that the middle appears 

 sulcate; of the circumferential laminae, the first four 

 broad, flat, rounded on the front edge, projecting ; or 



* 'Ent. Mo. Mag./ s.s., vol. xiii, p. 284. 



