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SCALE OF MALE. Length about i mm. Rather irregular in 

 form and feebly carinated. 



MALE. " Adult male bright reddish ; of normal form. Terminal 

 joint of antenna shorter than ninth ; broad at base ; the narrowed 

 apical portion conspicuously darker after staining ; a curved knobbed 

 hair at apex. Foot with three digitules, one on claw and two on 

 tarsus. Length including genital sheath, .75 mm." (Green). 



REMARKS. 



Found in Ceylon in the small pits at the base of the veins on the 

 under surface of the leaves of Elaeocarpus amoenus. The number 

 in a single pit varies from one to many. Where several are crowded 

 into one pit they lose the elongated shape usual in this genus and 

 become irregular in form. 



HEMICHIONASPIS RHODODENDRI. 



Chionaspis rhododendri Green, Coccidae of Ceylon, Part II., p. 119 

 (1899). 



SCALE OF FEMALE. Plate 3, Fig. 9. Length, 1.2 1.5 mm. 

 More or less elongated, decidedly broadened posteriorly, sometimes 

 being nearly as broad as long. Very thin and delicate in texture ; 

 white or very pale yellow. Exuviae .5 .8 mm. long, pale brownish 

 yellow or almost colorless. 



FEMALE. Elongated, segmentation moderately distinct. Median 

 lobes (Plate 9, Fig. 7), large and conspicuous, only slightly colored ; 

 the exposed edge of each lobe divided into about five obscure crena- 

 tions. Second lobe very obscure or absent ; third lobe absent. 

 Gland-spines short and almost conical in form. They are arranged 

 as follows : i, i, i, 1,2-4. Dorsal gland-orifices few in number. 

 Second row absent ; third and fourth rows represented only by their 

 posterior groups each containing i 3 orifices. Median group of 

 circumgenital gland-orifices numbering 6 9 ; anterior laterals, 

 ii 15 ; posterior laterals, n 15. 



SCALE OF MALE. Plate 9, Fig. 9 A. Length, .8 i mm. 

 Plainly tri-carinate. Exuvia pale yellow or colorless. 



