l62 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [JunC, '05 



What I take to be male scales are small, oval, white, with 

 exuviae colored as on the female. 



It is worth while to record that Mr. Rivera sent me Epidias- 

 pis piricola (Del Guercio), collected at Santiago, Chile. 



Geroplastes schrottkyi n. sp. 

 $. — Scale circular or nearly flattish, rounded above, dull ochreous, 

 length and breadth each about 8 mm., height about /^y^ mm., wax i to 

 nearly 2 mm. thick ; vyax rough, no distinct plates ; some obscure patches 

 of snow-white secretion ; beneath, the four lines of white secretion are 

 close together, converging to a central point ; crushed, the insects give a 

 light Vermillion color ; boiled, they stain the liquid dark cherry red. 

 Denuded 9 about 6 mm. by 5>^, height 3 ; dark red at the sides ; region 

 of anal plates black and thickened ; caudal horn reduced to a low broad 

 mammiform protuberance, directed upwards. Skin dark colored and 

 strongly chitinous, with hyaline spots. Mouth-parts about 210 \i- broad. 

 Tarsus very short, about 37 /i long. Antennae slender, apparently 7- 

 jointed, but the segmentation obscure, joint 2 with a very long hair near 

 the end ; measurements of joints in /^ : (i) 55? (2), 42, (3) 42, (4) prox. 

 50, (5) 25, (6) 25, (7) 35. 



Hab. — Villa Encarnacion, Paraguay, on Salix chilensis Mol. 

 (►S. Jmmboldtiana Willd.), sent by Mr. Schrottky, who recog- 

 nized it as a new species. The denuded 9 is suggestive of C. 

 africanus Green, especially by the mammiform caudal promi- 

 nence. The antennae are rather like those of C. sinensis Del 

 Guercio, which is otherwise very different, being doubtfully 

 separable from C. mexicanus Ckll.* 



Geroplastes sangnineas n. sp. 



9- — Scale about 5 mm. long, 4 broad and about i>^ high ; very flat, 

 whitish strongly suffused with pink, dark red in middle, with the 

 usual elongate boss of white secretion ; division into plates very distinct. 

 Denuded insect oval, soft, 3>^ mm. long, 3 broad, about i>4 high, very 

 dark caudal horn a black mammiform protuberance. Skin of dorsum 

 with numerous dark tubular glands ; margin with dark tubular glands, 

 ending in sharp dark spines : coxae very long ; femur and trochanter 

 about 187 /A ; tibia 130 ; tarsus (excl. claw) 95 ; claw-digitules with large 

 knobs ; antennae long and slender, 7-jointed, joints measuring in /* : (i) 

 62, (2) 52, (3) 90, (4) 62, (5) 25, (6) 25, (7) 40. On the ventral surface of 



* Specimens collected by Mr. Marlatt on orange twigs at Monte Carlo 

 and Mentone, have been compared with genuine C. sinensis irom Liguria, 

 and with C. mexicanus from Zapotlan, Mexico. I find some differences in 

 the different lots, but the antennae and legs are of the same type in all, 

 and I do not feel satisfied that there is more than one species concerned. 



