Mr. A. Hempel on Brazilian Coccidne. 117 



Apiococcus si'nfjiilari^-, Ilompcl. 



Adult female test spherical, with a small round orifice in 

 one side. Outer surface rough, black ; but beneath the 

 surface it is a dark coflTce-brown. Inside of test smooth, 

 dark brown, covered with white powdery secretion. Size of 

 largest sju'cimens ') niillini, in diameter. 



Adult female sjihcrical, light yellow in colour, filling the 

 entire test. Boiled in a solution of KOIJ it colours the 

 liquid a golden yellow. Dorm semichitinous, with many 

 small round spinnerets massed on the cephalic region. An- 

 tenna?, small tubercles, with the usual terminal brush of stiff 

 hairs. Rostrum large, but placed farther cej)halad than in 

 the preceding species. Legs wanting. Anal ring hairless. 

 The sj)iracles are tubes with both ends expanded into disks. 

 The outer disk is densely set with round spinnerets. A great 

 number of fine tracheje radiate from the inner opening. Anal 

 tubercles not developed, but indicated by a mass of six or 

 seven sharp spines on each side. Clustered around the anal 

 orifice there are about sixteen small, sharp spines, two longer 

 setro, and many small round spinnerets. The derm bears the 

 customary s])inn(rots, hairs, invaginations, and peculiar conical 

 spines. The invaginations or pockets are large and nearly 

 spherical, one individual having nearly forty of them. 



Larva (just hatched). — Ellijitieal, light yellow in colour. 

 Antennas of six joints, joint ti the longest, but joint I nearly 

 equalling it in length. Legs short and thick. Digitulos -4, 

 slender; rostral loop long. Anal tubercles not developed. 

 The abdomen ends in two long setoe, between which are six 

 short, sharp spines and two long hairs. Around the margin 

 there are from twenty-eight to thirty short, thick spines. On 

 the thorax and head there are ten short, thick spines, arranged 

 in two longitudinal submedian rows of five spines each. 

 Length "^-lO millini. 



Hab. Ypirauga, State of Sao Paulo. 



Scattered singly on twigs of a shrub of the order Myrtacese. 



Apiococcus asperatus, Hempel. 



Female test spherical, hard, thick, black, the outside 

 roughened by small tubercles. Beneath the surface it is a 

 dark brown colour. The inside of the test is smooth, and is 

 coated with a thin layer of white secretion. Size 3 millim. in 

 diameter. 



Female spherical, filling the entire test; light yellow in 

 colour. Boiled in a solution of KOll it colours the liquid 



