124 ASPIDIOTUS CYANOPHYLLI. 



Fig. 4. Parasitised female, showing pupa of para- 

 site within, x 25. 

 Fig, 5. Puparium of male. X 25. 

 Fig. 6. Insects natural size in situ on rind of lemon. 

 Fig. 7. Insects natural size in situ on leaf of 



Nerium oleander. 

 PL X ; fig. 1. Pygidium of adult female, x 25u. 



Fig. la. Spiracle of adult female, x 600. 

 PI. XII, fig. 3. Margin of pygidium of adult female-. 

 X 600. 



ASPIDIOTUS CYANOPHYLLI (S 



(PL IX, figs. 16; PL X, fig. 2; PL XII, fig. 5.) 

 Asp idiot us cyanophylli, Signoret; Essai, p. 93, pl.iii, 



fig. 11. 



Euaspidiotus ct/anophyli (Signoret), Leonard!; Gen. 

 e sp. di Diaspiti. Est. dal. Rivista di Pato- 

 logia Vegetale, 1 897 [VI], 1900 [VIII], p. 80. 



I'uparium of the female (PL IX, figs. 1, 2) at first 

 more or less circular ; but the old adults are ovate, or 

 elongate ovate, with one extremity usually more nar- 

 rowed than the other ; the side next the midrib, or 

 prominent vein of the leaf, compressed and straight ; 

 central area high convex ; semitransparent, the yellow 

 colour of the sublying female, the eggs and the effete 

 skins showing through the puparia. At first the puparia 

 are almost colourless; but the old dried examples become 

 straw coloured or pale ochreous (fig. 2)'. Exuviae 

 central or nearly so, pale yellow or colourless ; secre- 

 tional coverings transparent ; the first ovate is either 

 smooth or has a central prominence ; the second is 

 either elongate or widely ovate and smooth. 



Typical examples. Long. 1 2 mm. 



Var. on Aralia. Long. 2 3 mm. 



