Mr. A. Ilempel on BraziUnn Coccidae. 559 



Ceroplastes novcesi, Hempel. 

 Female scale very variable in size and colour, usually 

 pinkish white, with two white lines on each side to tlie lateral 

 nuclei. General shape ovate or subcircular or pentagonal ; 

 dorsum very convex. The dorsal nucleus conspicuous. The 

 wax is depressed about the nuclei and elevated into three 

 tubercles on the dorsum, catisiii": a roiiijh and irre":ular 

 appearance. The wax is pinkish, yellowish, or purplish, and 

 is not divided into plates, and contains little water. In the 

 older specimens the dorsum becomes more convex and the 

 waxy humps become less conspicuous. Length of the largest 

 specimens 7'50 millim. ; width 7 millim.; height 0'75 millim. 

 The inside of the scale is yellowish. 



Denuded of wax the adult female is smooth, dark cofFee- 

 brown, with a lighter area in the centre of the dorsum. Anal 

 plates small ; caudal horn short, stout, black. The derm in 

 hard and shiny and is chitinized around the lateral nuclei 

 and slightly elevated, forming two inconspicuous humps on 

 each side and one on the anterior end. There is a small five- 

 lobed flange around the lateral edge of the body, to correspond 

 with the lateral tubercles. Length 5"75 millim. ; width 

 525 millim. ; height 4 millim. Boiled in a solution of KOII 

 it colours the liquid light brown or reddish. The dorsal derm 

 remains hard and sem {transparent. 



Antennte variable, •20G millim. to '225 millim. long; of 

 six joints. Approximate formula: 3 6 1 (2 4.5). Length 

 of joints: (1) 31, (2) 26-31, (3) 70-75, (4j 22-2Q, (5)22-26, 

 (6) 35-40. Legs short and apparently deformed. The tibia 

 of the first pair of legs and sometimes of the other legs also 

 is concave on the outer edge. Length of joints of first pair 

 of legs : coxa 66, trochanter and femur 93, tibia 04, tarsus 44, 

 claw 18, digitules of claw 34. The tarsal digitules are 

 slender, with expanded endsj the digitules of the claw are 

 wide and of unequal size, with expanded ends. Rostrum 

 small, placed behind the insertion of the first pair of legs. 

 Rostral loop short. The stigmatal areas are characterized 

 by about forty conical spines and many small spinnerets. 

 The anal ring has six long hairs. The dorsal derm is homo- 

 geneous, but contains a number of small glands. The lateral 

 margin has a simple row of small hairs. 



Bab. Capoeira Grande, Campinas, Ypiranga, S. Paulo, 

 Cachoeira, State of S. Paulo. On AbutUon sp., Baccharis 

 dracunculifoUa, Baccharis sp., and Vernonia Riedelii. It 

 infests the branches and twigs, and seems to reproduce rapidly, 

 as more than 1300 eggs were counted from one individual ; 

 many of the adult specimens are, however, parasitized. 



