Mr. A. Hempel on Brazilian Coccidee. 559 
Ceroplastes novest, Hempel. 
Female scale very variable in size and colour, usually 
pinkish white, with two white lines on each side to the lateral 
nuclei. General shape ovate or subcircular or pentagonal ; 
dorsum very convex. The dorsal nucleus conspicuous. The 
wax is depressed about the nuclei and elevated into three 
tubercles on the dorsum, causing a rough and _ irregular 
appearance. ‘The wax is pinkish, yellowish, or purplish, and 
is not divided into plates, and contains little water. In the 
older specimens the dorsum becomes more convex and the 
waxy humps become less conspicuous. Length of the largest 
specimens 7°50 millim.; width 7 millim.; height 5°75 millim. 
The inside of the scale is yellowish. 
Denuded of wax the adult female is smooth, dark coffee- 
brown, with a lighter area in the centre of the dorsum. Anal 
plates small; caudal horn short, stout, black. The derm is 
hard and shiny and is chitinized around the lateral nuclei 
and slightly elevated, forming two inconspicuous humps on 
each side and one on the anterior end. There i is a small five- 
lobed flange around the lateral edge of the body, to correspond 
with the lateral tubercles. Length 5°75 millim.; width 
5°25 millim.; height 4 millim. Boiled in a solution of KOH 
it colours the liquid light brown or reddish. The dorsal derm 
remains hard and semitransparent, 
Antenne variable, *206 millim. to *225 millim. long; of 
six joints. motor formula: 361 (245). Length 
of joints: (1) 31, (2) 26-31, (3) 70-75, (4) 22-26, (5) 22-26, 
(6) 35-40. Legs ne and apparently deformed. The tibia 
of the first pair of legs and sometimes of the other legs also 
is concave on the outer edge. Length of joints of first pair 
of legs: coxa 66, trochanter and femur 93, tibia 64, tarsus 44, 
claw 18, digitules of claw 34. The tarsal digitules are 
slender, with expanded ends; the digitules of the claw are 
wide and of unequal size, with expanded ends, Rostrum 
small, placed behind the insertion of the first pair of legs. 
Rostral loop short. ‘The stigmatal areas are characterized 
by about forty conical spiues and many small spinnerets. 
‘The anal ring has six long hairs, ‘The dorsal derm is homo- 
geneous, but contains a number of small glands. The lateral 
margin has a simple row of small hairs. 
Hab. Capoeira Grande, Campinas, Ypiranga, S. Paulo, 
Cachoeira, State of S. Paulo. On Abutilon sp., Baccharis 
dracunculifolia, Baccharis sp., and Vernonia Riedelti. It 
infests the branches and twigs, and seems to reproduce rapidly, 
as more than 1300 eggs were counted from one individual ; 
many of the adult specimens are, however, parasitized, 
