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soft and transparent. Not tessellated or composed of plates, 

 bnt liomogi'neons and thickly set with minute tubular f^lands 

 and some short hairs. Around the lateral margin there is 

 one row of short hairs and another row of lon{]jer hairs, each 

 arising; from a tubercle. The stigmatul groups consist of 

 three thick blunt spines, two short and one long. About 

 seventy spinnerets, in several irrei^ular rows, extend from 

 each spiracle to the margin. The derm on the ventral 

 surface contains a marginal strip, which is slightly chitinized 

 and thickly set with large tubular glands and round complex 

 spinnerets. On each side of the genital opening there is a 

 group of fifty to fifty-five of these spinnerets. 



Antenna? large, of eight joints, all except joints 3 and 4 

 bear hairs, joints 2 and 5 each bearing one long hair. Length 

 of antennjB '513 millim. Formula: 2 3 1 (4 5 8) ((j 7). 

 Length of joints: (1) 67, (2) 120, (3) 98, (4) 58, (5) .58, 

 (6) 27, (7) 27, (8) 58. Legs long and thin, with few hairs. 

 The coxa bears one hair and several short spines ; the tro- 

 chanter bears one long terminal hair; the femur bears no 

 hairs ; the tarsus and tibia each have two or three short 

 hairs. Length of joints of the first pair of legs: coxa 111, 

 femur and trochanter 293, tibia 213, tarsus with claw 164. 

 Digitules of claw unequal in size, with knobbed ends, not 

 extending fur beyond the tip of claw. Tarsal digitules long, 

 slender, with expanded ends. Kostrum ordinary, inserted in 

 front of the first pair of legs. Rostral loop short. Anal ring 

 with ten hairs. Anal plates triangular, the two together 

 diamond- shaped. On the dorsal surface, near the lateral 

 margin, there is a row of peculiar conical glands. These 

 glands are twenty-four in number, are about 18 /x wide and 

 22 /i higli, and form a ring around the body, tlius readily 

 separating this species from all other known members of this 

 genus. 



IJah. Ypirauga, State of 8. Paulo. Under the bark of 

 Eugenia jaboticaba. 



Lecanium Janigerum, Hempel. 



Adult teniale light yellow in colour, large, subspherical, 

 7 millim. in diameter, entirely covered w ith a large mass of 

 dense white secretion. Boiled in a solution of KOll it colours 

 the liquid deep yellowish brown. Derm i.s chitinized only in 

 spots; after boiling it becomes transparent, colourless, and 

 solt. 



Legs and antenuai rudimentary. The antennas are short 

 tubercles with a terminal brush of liair.s. Tlie legs are {A6 fifj. 

 long, short, cylindrical, with claw and digitules. I'lio 

 mouljj-parta are small; rostral loop short. The stigmata are 



