112 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Chionaspis exalhida, n. sp. 



? . Scales crowded, about If mm. long, convex, very narrow, pure 

 white, with yellow-brown exuvitne ; the second skin has the basal half 

 covered with white secretion, but the apical half is bare and clear 

 brownish yellow. 



2 . Deep carmine-red (turns green on boiling in caustic potash), 

 elongate, the margins of the segments nowhere projecting. Caudal 

 end scarcely chitinised ; no circumgenital glands ; the usual rows of 

 transverse dorsal glands, but they are irregular, with few glands ; 

 margin of caudal end with many lobules, which hardly take the form 

 of definite lobes ; the median lobules are rounded, and separated by a 

 rather wide interval, and present a projecting point at their outer 

 edge ; after these come two rounded prominences, then two rounded 

 depressions, separated by a prominence which is sometimes bifid ; 

 then comes a little projection, and then a large gently convex portion, 

 then a notch, and after that a few notches at rather distant intervals. 

 There are apparently no squames, but specimens which have not 

 been treated with potash show a short waxy fringe taking the place of 

 squames. 



^ . Scales of the usual Chionaspis form, but texture quite dense ; 

 unicarinate, some faintly tricarinate. 



On leaves of aloe, Howick, Natal (Fuller). This is not a true 

 Chionaspis, but there is no other genus to receive it. 



Poliaspis carissce, n. sp. 



$ . Scale similar to that of P. cycadis, but perhaps narrower ; 

 second skin pale, as in cycadis. 



5 . Similar to P. cycadis, but the strongly serrulate reddish- 

 brown median lobes are wide apart, the interval being nearly as great 

 as the breadth of a lobe ; the second lobe consists of two lobules, of 

 which the inner is the larger, and its tip projects a little beyond the 

 level of the tips of the median lobes ; the margin just beyond the 

 second lobe bears two large oval dorsal glands, like those of the series 

 on the next segments anteriorly ; there are only four dorsal glands in 

 the short rows nearest the anal orifice. The middle of the body is 

 red-brown, and strongly chitinised. Circumgenital glands in eight 

 groups ; the posterior laterals 19, middle laterals (cephalolaterals of 

 other genera), 11, median 5, in a transverse row, and the anterior 

 groups characteristic of Poliaspis form a transverse series broken into 

 three linear groups of three or four, which are widely separated. 



3' . Scale tricarinate. 



On Carissa {? C. grandiflora, DC), a plant which belongs to 

 the Apocynacege. Durban, Natal {Fuller). In this species and 

 P. cycadis the anterior groups of glands are in transverse lines ; 

 in P. media, and the species described by Fuller from Australia, 

 the groups are circular. 



Halimococcus lampas, Ckll. 

 Mr. Fuller sends new material on the palm, Hyphcene crinita, 

 Gaertn. This palm is a native of Natal. 



