232 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



A CONTEIBUTION TO THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE 



COCCID^.- 



By T. D. a. CoOKERELIi. 

 MONOPHLEBIN^. 



Mojiojjhlehus, Leach. 



Monophlebus, Leach, in Westwood, Arc. Ent. i. (1845), p. 22. 

 Type, atripennis. 



Guerinia, Targ.-Tozz., in Signoret, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 

 1875, p. 352. Type, serratulce. 



Drosicha, Walker, List Homop. Brit. Mus. Supp. (1858), 

 p. 306. Type, contrahens. 



Tessarobeius, Montrouzier, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xi. (1864), 

 p. 246. Type, guerinii. 



Llaveia, Signoret, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1875, p. 370. 

 Type, axin. 



Ortonia, Signoret, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1875, p. 367 (not 

 Ortonia, Wood, 1869). Type, w/i/m. 



Protortonia, Townsend, Jn. N. Y. Ent. Soc. J898, p. 169. 

 Type, 'primitivus. 



$ . Soft, somewhat elongated, more or less hairy, with powdery 

 or cottony secretion. Legs and antennae present ; antennre 11- (some- 

 times 9-) jointed ; no long posterior ovisac. One species has 7-jointed 

 antennae. 



$• . With fleshy caudal processes, arranged along the sides of the 

 abdomen. 



Species. — M. duhius, Fabr. {fahricii, Westw.), Sumatra; M. 

 atripennis, King, Java; M.leachi, Westw., Malabar; M. saun- 

 dersi, Westw., India; M. burmeisteri, Westw., India (?) ; M. zey- 

 lanicus, Green, Ceylon ; M. contrahens, Signoret, China ; M. 

 maskelli, Ckll. {burmeisteri, Maskell, Tr. N.Z. Inst. xxix. p. 327), 

 Japan ; M. corpulentus, Kuwana, Japan. 



M. illigeri, Westw., Tasmania ; M. craivfordi, Maskell, Aus- 

 tralia; M._/«scMs, Maskell, Australia; M. guerinii, MoniY., New 

 Caledonia. 



M. serratulcB, Fabr., Algeria ; M.fortis, Ckll., Natal ; M.ful- 

 leri, Ckll., Natal ; M. raddoni, Westw., W. Africa. 



M. axin, Llave, Mexico ; M. primitivus, Townsend, Mexico ; 

 M. mexicanQrum, Ckll., Mexico; M. bouvari, Signoret, Guatemala ; 

 M. uhleri, Signoret, Ecuador ; M. championi, Ckll., Panama ; 

 M. cacti, Linne, St. Eustatius Island, Lesser Antilles. 



Unfortunately, many of the species are known only in one sex. 

 The genus may be divided into a number of sections, thus : — 



(1.) Monophlebus, Leach. Male with two caudal appendages. 

 M. atripennis, M. dubius. 



-''• Por tables of subfamilies and genera, see ' Canadian Entomologist,' 

 October, 1899. 



