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conspicuously hairy, with long pale ferruginous hristles ; salmon-pink 

 when alive (Fuller), when dry very dark greyish (red by transmitted 

 light), with three longitudinal keels covered with granular yellowish 

 white secretion ; the thickened margins and the under side also 

 covered with white secretion, which is in large granules, presenting a 

 peculiar appearance. 



Boiled in liquor potassse, turns it yellow ; the three " cicatrices " 

 described in Walkeriana are present, all elongated ; eyes conical, very 

 large and dark, placed immediately below and contiguous to the 

 antennaB ; mouth-parts small ; body very densely covered with short 

 hairs, together with short and long blunt hairs ; long ordinary hairs 

 interspersed along the lateral margins ; femur and trochanter 850 /x 

 long, tibia 120, tarsus (without claw) 460 ; tarsal digitules represented 

 by a pair of bristles ; inner side of tarsus and tibia with a row of 

 remarkable hyaline spear-head-shaped spines, the same also taking 

 the place of the claw digitules ; tarsus curved, with a constriction on 

 the upper edge which gives it the appearance of being two-jointed ; 

 antennae apparently 10-jointed (club broken off in the example studied), 

 joint 1 broader than long ; 2 and 3 cylindrical, longer than broad ; 

 4 and 5 short cup-shaped ; 6 and 7 long cup-shaped ; 8 and 9 fusi- 

 form ; measurements of joints in /x: — (1) 90; (2) 120, and about 100 

 broad ; (3) 114 ; (4) 80 ; (5) 80 ; (6) 80 ; (7) 90 ; (8) 100 ; (9) 100 ; 

 (10) ?. 



Penultimate stage. — Antenna 8-jointed ; 2 and 3 cylindrical as in 

 the adult ; last joint long and narrow, 165 /x long ; body hairy like 

 adult. 



A distinct species, peculiar for the spear-head-like spines 

 on the legs. Among the American species its nearest ally is 

 M. primitiviis. 



(2), Monophlehus fortis, n. sp. — Richmond, Natal, under bark 

 of Eucalyptus ; only one found. 



? . Dark grey, distinctly segmented, mealy, posterior end covered 

 with cottony secretion ; sides with scattered long pale bristles ; legs 

 black. Length 5^, breadth 2| millim. 



Boiled in liquor potassae, does not stain it. Hairy skin just as in 

 M. fulleri, also legs, with the same spear-shaped processes, which are 

 even better developed on the tibia. "Cicatrices" as in fidleri. Length 

 of tibia about 1100 fx, tarsus (without claw) about 680. Antennas 

 11-jointed; measurements in /x:—(l) 150; (2)150; (3)150; (4)110; 

 (5) 110 ; (6) 110 ; (7) 110 ; (8) 130 ; (9) 120 ; (10) 120 ; (11) 160. 



Very close to the last, but smaller, though certainly adult, 

 and without the longitudinal white keels. 



(3), Dactylopius Jilamentosus, GkW., small variety. — On leaves 

 of grass, Tongaat, Natal. 



Antennal formula 732 (146) 5 ; joints in /x :— (1) 30; (2) 33; (3) 

 36 ; (4) 30 ; (5) 24 ; (6) 30 ; (7) 66. Tibia 90 /x, tarsus 60. 



Tinsley has reported this species from Richmond, Natal. 



