Coccidye in the British Museum. 375 



" Pitchy, elliptical, thickly covered above with woolly 

 matter: feelers submoniliform, slightly setaceous: the joints 

 successively increasing in length : legs ferruginous^ hairy. 

 Length of body 2 lines. China. Presented by G. T. Lay, 

 Esq.^' 



No. 1502. Lecamum australe, Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., Horn, 

 p. 1079. 



The type of this species has unfortunately been lost, and no 

 clue remains as to its identity. Walker-'s diagnosis, here 

 appended, is quite inadequate : — 



" Rufum, ellipticuin, transverse rugosum." 



" E,ed, elliptical, transversely rugose. Length of body 

 1^ line. Van Diemen^s Land. Presented by the Rev. T. 

 Ewing.'" 



No. 1503. Lecanium capense, Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., Horn, 

 p. 1079. 



The following diagnosis {loc. cit.) gives little assistance in 

 the identification of the species : — 



" Piceuniy transversum, conchiforme, transverse striatum." 



" Conchiform, pitchy, a little broader than long, with 

 transverse stria, wliich are parallel to the broader side. 

 Breadth 1 line. Algoa Bay. Above 200 specimens on bark. 

 Presented by Dr. Pereira.'' 



Fortunately the Museum Collection contains ample material 

 from which I have been able to determine the insect as an 

 undescribed species of Aspidiotus and to append the annexed 

 formal description. 



Aspidiotus (^Aonidiella) capensis (Walk.). 

 Lecanium capense, Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., Horn. p. 1079 (1862). 



Female puparium subcircular or oval, moderately convex, 

 very dense and somewhat rough and corrugated. Colour 

 deep chocolate-brown, in some examples inclining to reddish. 

 Pellicles reddish, situate close to anterior margin, the second 

 often concealed. Ventral scale dense, whitish. Longer 

 diameter 2 to 2*50 mm. 



Male puparium small, narrow, tapering slightly to poste- 

 rior extremity. Colour and texture as in female ; posterior 

 extremity slightly paler. Length 1'25 mm. ; breadth 0*50 mm. 



Adult ? . — Dried examples deep purple-brown. Broadly 

 oval. A conspicuous submarginal series of long stout hairs 

 on cephalothorax (fig. 1, p. 376). Rudimentary antennae with 

 several stout curved bristles. A ventral series of from four to 

 six stout blunt spines on each side, each spine arising from a 



