169 



No. 244), 1907. Except for the numerous tubercles and a few 

 minor differences this species seems a very close ally of L. frontale, 

 Green. 



Type material and slide in Entomological collection (No. 860) 

 of the Hawaiian Board of Agriculture. 



PARALECANiiTM EXPANSUM (Green). 



Green, " Coccidae of Ceylon," III, p. 235, PL LXXXVI, 

 1904. Several specimens apparently all collected at Singapore 

 on several plants. But one of them bears Mr. Muir's No. (238), 

 another is dated March '07. 



This is a very large species (7.5 mm. long and 6 mm. broad). 

 Mr. Green reports it also from Java and Queensland, so that the 

 present is the first record of this species from the Malay Straits. 



Subfamily DIASPINAE. 



CHIONASPIS Sp. 



" On sugar cane, especially wild." Malay States. (F. Muir 

 No. 260). Zehntner described four species of Chionaspis from 

 sugar cane in Java. The accessible literature covers only two of 

 these, and the present species is not either but may be one of the 

 other two. 



PHENACASPis DiLATATA ( Green ) . 



Green, "Coccidae of Ceylon," II, p. 148, PL LI. 

 Habitat— ""^^iv. Estate " (Malay ?) on "Rubber." (F. Muir 

 No. 262). 



Note. — On leaves along side of Asp. palmae, tho less abundant. 



ASPiDioTus (hemiberlesia) palmae Morg. & Ckll. 



Leonardi, Gen. e Spec. Diaspiti, Asp., p. 78, fig. 22, 1900. 



"Batu Estate" (Malay?) on "Rubber" leaves, (Muir No. 

 262) ; Singapore on ?, March '07. 



This insect was quite abundant on the specimen leaves collected 

 by Mr. Muir. Externally it resembles A. rapax so closely that 

 nothing short of a careful study of a microscopical preparation 

 will determine its true identity. 



In this connection it may be of interest to note that Mr. New 



