558 Mr. A. Hempel on Braztlian Coccide. 
Denuded of wax it is more or less elliptical, of a bright red 
colour, like sealing-wax, and 9 millim. long, 6°5 millim. wide, 
and 5°50 millim. high. The caudal horn is black, thick, and 
conical, with the tip slightly elevated, 2.25 millim, long and 
2 millim. wide at the base. Around the lateral border there 
is a slight flange, which is excavated at the stigmatal areas 
and posterior end, thus making it five-lobed. ‘There are six 
humps or tubercles present; these are very sharp and are 
situated one on the dorsum, one on the anterior end, and two 
lateral on each side. he derm is dotted with minute pits, 
is moderately shiny and soft, being chitinized only about the 
eandal horn and stigmatal areas. Boiled in a solution of 
KKOH it colours the liquid red. The derm becomes soft and 
transparent. 
The antenne are 8-jointed; joints 2 and 5 each bear two 
very long hairs, joints 8 and 4 bear no hairs. Average length 
“500 millim. Approximate formula: 5 3 (1 2) 84 (6 7) ov 
(5 3) (12) 84 (67). Length of joints: (1) 66, (2) 66, 
(3) 84-88, (4) 40-44, (5) 84-93, (6) 31-40, (7) 31-40, 
(8) 44-48. Legs ordinary; trochanter long; coxa with two 
Jong subterminal hairs. Length of joints of first pair of 
legs: coxa 164, trochanter and femur 280, tibia 182, tarsus 106, 
claw 22, digitules of claw 44. ‘Tarsal digitules long, slender, 
with expanded ends, reaching to the tips of the digitules of 
claw, the latter being large, with the ends rounded and widely 
expanded, Rostrum well-developed, placed behind the inser- 
tion of the first pair of legs, Mentum with eight hairs near 
the tip. Anal ring apparently with six large hairs, Anal 
plates with three hairs near the posterior end. Around the 
margin there is a single row of small hairs, each arising from 
a tubercle. ‘The stigmatal areas are each characterized by 
seventy to eighty-five short bullet-shaped spines of different 
sizes and over a hundred small round spinnerets. The derm 
on the dorsal surface is thickly studded with short spine-like 
hairs and small spinnerets. 
Male scale white, small, elliptical, with seven marginal 
and two dorsal tufts of white wax. The marginal tufts are 
arranged in a row of three on each side and one on the 
anterior end. The posterior end bears a few white filaments. 
Denuded of the tufts the scale is flat and very thin. Length 
1:5 millim.; width °80 millim. The male scales are usually 
placed close together on the underside of the leaves. 
Hab. Ypiranga, 8. Paulo, and Iguape, State of S. Paulo. 
On the branches of Zrnthorylum sp., Llea sp., Psidium sp., 
Raccharis sp., Mechelia flava, and various other plants, espe- 
cially those of the order Myrtaceae. 
