Mr. A. Hempel on Brazilian Coccide. OT 
soft and transparent. Not tessellated or composed of plates, 
but homogeneous and thickly set with minute tubular glands 
and some short hairs. Around the lateral margin there is 
one row of short hairs and another row of longer hairs, each 
arising from a tubercle. The stigmatal groups consist of 
three thick blunt spines, two short and one long. About 
seventy spinnerets, in several irregular rows , extend from 
each spiracle to the margin. The derm on the ventral 
surface contains a marginal strip, which is slightly chitinized 
and thickly set with large tubular glands and round complex 
spinnerets. On each side of the genital opening there is a 
group of fifty to fifty - five of these spinnerets. 
Antenna: large, of eight joints, all except joints 8 and 4 
bear hairs, joints 2 and 5 each bearing one oe hair. Length 
of antenne ‘513 ae Formula: 23 1 (4 5 8) (6 Ty, 
Length of joints: (1) 67, (2) 120, (3) 98, (4) 58, (5) 58, 
(6) 27, (7) 27, (8) 58. es long and thin, with few hairs. 
The coxa bears one hair and several short spines; the tro- 
chanter bears one long terminal hair; the femur bears no 
hairs; the tarsus and tibia each have two or three short 
hairs. Length of joints of the first pair of legs: coxa 111, 
femur and trochanter 293, tibia 213, tarsus with claw 164. 
Digitules of claw unequal in size, with knobbed ends, not 
extending far beyond the tip of claw. Tarsal digitules long, 
slender, with expanded ends. Rostrum ordinary, inserted in 
front of the first pair of legs. Rostral loop short. Anal ring 
with ten hairs. Anal plates triangular, the two together 
diamond shaped. On the dorsal surface, near the lateral 
margin, there is a row of peculiar conical glands. ‘These 
glands are twenty- -four in number, are about 18 u wide and 
22 w high, and form a ring around the body, thus readily 
separating this species from all other known members of this 
genus. 
Hlab. Ypivauga, State of S. Paulo. Under the bark of 
Eugenia jaboticaba. 
Lecanium lanigerum, Hempel. 
Adult female light yellow in colour, large, subspherical, 
7 millim. in diameter , entirely covered Pathe a large mass of 
dense white eeeretions Boiled in a solution of KOH i it colours 
the liquid deep yellowish brown, Derm is chitinized only in 
spots; after boiling it becomes transparent, colourless, and 
sott. 
Legs and antenne rudimentary. The antenne are short 
tubercles with a terminal brush of hairs. ‘The legs are 133 wy 
long, short, cylindrical, with claw and digitules, ‘lhe 
moutli-parts are small; rostral loop short. ‘The stigmata are 
