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(4). Pollinia ovoides, n. sp. — Durban; gregarious on the 

 branches of some tree. 



2 . Scale a rounded conical object much like a lepidopterous egg, 

 about li millim. diam., roughened radiately, pale brown with four 

 longitudinal stripes of white secretion converging to the top of the 

 scale, which is usually reddish. 



(?. Scale elongated, about f millim. long, roughened, yellowish 

 or pink, with an oblique terminal cap. 



2 . Scales soaked in liquor potass^e, give a deep orange-brown 

 colour, and the insects themselves turn deep crimson ; $ adult globose ; 

 skin with many simple round glands and tubular glands, and some 

 figure-of-8 glands ; anal ring with numerous hairs ; caudal lobes 

 prominent, conical, about 45 fi long, with a few small spines, and 

 ending in stout bristles about 90 /a long ; mouth-parts well developed, 

 but small ; labium short and broad, dimerous, the last joint with 

 bristles on its margin ; antennae represented by small rounded tubercles 

 about 15 fi long, with a little terminal prominence which appears to 

 represent a second joint, and about six stout bristles about 18 /a long ; 

 spiracles small but distinct ; legs wanting. 



Emhryonic larva with a row of figure-of-8 glands down each side, 

 and dorsal and subdorsal rows of small round glands, the latter failing 

 caudad, the last five glands of the dorsal rows being absent in the 

 subdorsal ; labium very short and broad, cup-shaped ; form of insect 

 elongate-pyriform ; antennae thick, 6-jointed, last joint not very greatly 

 longer than the one before, and notched as in P. pollini. 



A very distinct species. 



(5). Diaspis craivii, Ckll., var. fulleri, n. var. — On twigs of 

 Melia azedarach (called "syringa" in Natal), Maritzburg, Natal. 



2 . Scale white, circular, 3 millim. diam., as in crawU, but exuvise 

 conspicuous, pale ochreous to dark brown. 



? . Agreeing with cmwii in the lobes, circumgenital and other 

 glands, and other particulars, except that (1) the median lobes have 

 the inner slope long, straight nearly to the base (in craivii obtusely 

 angled about the middle), and conspicuously though minutely crenu- 

 late ; and (2) the margin beyond the lobes is furnished with one, and 

 then after an interval a group of seven very large spine-like squames. 

 All the spine-hke squames are very large. Circumgenital glands ; 

 median about 27, cephalolaterals about 57, caudolaterals about 31. 



This appears to be only a variety of the Asiatic D. craivii. 

 It is easily known from D. pentagona and D. auranticolor by the 

 inequilateral median lobes, with a long inner slope. 



(6). Diaspis pentagona, Targioni. — Pietermaritzburg, Natal ; 

 on peach. 



(7). Chrysomphalus rossi (MsiskeW). — Durban, Natal ; on pre- 

 sumed Eucalyptus. 



(8). C hr y so7nphalus phenax, n.s'p. 



? . Scale dark grey, resembling an oyster, with the sublateral 

 exuvisB shining black. ? . No circumgenital glands ; anal orifice 



