140 PARLATORIA PROTEUS. 



not been my good fortune to procure living examples, 

 and such structural details as I have been able to make 

 out from mutilated specimens do not offer any salient 

 generic characters. 



The male puparium is distinguished by its elongated 

 form, its straight and usually perpendicular sides, and 

 its low convex, non-carinated dorsum ; which after the 

 escape of the male becomes more or less concave. 



SYNOPSIS OF THE SPECIES. 



A. Puparium of the female elongate. 



a. Pygidium with fourth rudimentary lobe absent. 



(i) . . . . PROTEUS.* 



B. Puparium approximately circular. 



b. Fourth rudimentary lobe of pygidium present. 



(n) .... PERGANJHL 



C. Puparium of female black. 



c. Fourth lobe of pygidium distinct. Cephalic seg- 



ment with a large tubercle. 



(ill) .... ZlZYI'lll. 



PARLATORIA PROTEUS (Curtis). 



(PI. XXX, figs. 912; PI. XXXII, figs. 3, 4; 

 PI. XXXIII, fig. 2.) 



Aspidiotus proteus, Curtis (Ruricola) ; Gardeners' 

 Chronicle, 1843, p. 676 ; figs. 47. 



Parlatoria orbicularis, Targ.-Tozz. ; Catal. (1868), 

 42. 



Parlatoria proteus (Curtis); Signoret, Essai, p. 132, 

 pi. ii, fig. 3 ; pi. v, figs. 5, 5a. 



Puparium of adult female (PI. XXX, fig. 9) elongate 

 ovate, strongly convex, posterior extremity usually 



* The var. crotonis may be recognised by the yellow elongate-ovate 

 puparia of the female. 



