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white lines b(Mieatli oti each side. The cior.siim has a faint 

 indication of a median lon,i;itudinal ridji^e. Length (J miHini. ; 

 width 4 millini.; height V23 millini. Anal cleft about 

 1 millini. long, sides contiguous. Viviparous. Boiled in a 

 solution of KOlI it colours the liquid dark reddish brown. 

 The dorsal derm remains chitinous ; around the margin there 

 is a narrow stripe, light-coloured and semitraiisparent, the 

 remainder being dark and o])aque. The dorsal surface is 

 perforated by many minute holes, and also bears a few scat- 

 tered iiairs. 



Antinna} variable, usually of seven joints. Sometimes 

 only six joints are jnesent. All the joints except joint -i bear 

 hairs. Length about 'Mio millim. Approximate formula: 

 4 (2 7) 3 1 5 6 or (-1) (2 7) (3 1) {') 6). Average len-th of 

 joints: (I) 49, (2) 02, (3) 53, (4) 102, (o) 31, (G) 27, (7) (52. 

 Legs ordinary ; coxa and trochanter each with a long hair. 

 Length of j'lints of first pair of legs: coxa 111, trochanter 

 and femur 213, tibia 138, tarsus and claw 102. Digitules of 

 claw large, of equal size, with expanded ends. Tarsal 

 diy;itules long, with expanded ends. Rostrum small, 

 inserted just behind the first ))air of legs. Spiracles small, 

 with a double row of about thirty small round spinnerets 

 extending to the lateral margin. Anal ring apparently 

 with eight hairs. Anal plates small, triangulai', with the 

 outer angle slightly rounded and the antero-biteral side 

 slightly longer than the jiostero-lateral. On the veritral 

 surface there are several long hairs in front of the anal plates, 

 and two groups, of from twenty to twenty-five small round 

 spinnerets each, just behind the anal plates. Around the 

 lateral margin there is a row of small tuberculate hairs. The 

 margin is slightly indented in the stigmatal areas, and each 

 bears a group of two short straight spines and one long 

 curved one. 



Larva (just born). — Oval, flat, brown, *415 millim. lotig ; 

 eyes dark brown, small, conical. Antennai irregular, appa- 

 rently of six joints. The body ends in two long setse. 

 Margin of the body serrated and bearing a row of short hairs. 

 Stigmatal areas chaiacterized by a group of two short and one 

 long blunt sj)ine. Kostral loop long, extending to the anal 

 plates. Legs long, claw slender. Digitules of claw long, 

 unequal, one large, the other fine, both w ith expanded ends. 

 Tarsal digitules 2, long, slender, with expanded tips. 



IJab. Ypirauga and Jundiaby, State of 8. Paulo. Oc- 

 curing singly on the bark of a bush, Majtcnus sp. 



Lecanium eugcnice, liempel. 

 Adult female elliptical, the middle portion of the dorsum 



