70 Mr. A. Hempel on Brazilian Coccide. 
usually drops off. Margin of body depressed. Anal plates 
dark brown, exposed. When removed from the bark it leaves 
a thick ring of white secretion behind. 
Denuded of wax it is oval in outline, being widest poste- 
riorly, of a deep orange colour, with antenne and legs brown. 
The lateral margin is depressed, forming a flange; dorsum 
convex, with a median longitudinal ridge and four or five 
transverse furrows. Anal cleft about °50 millim. long. 
Length 3°75 millim.; width 3 millim.; height 1:25 millim. 
Ovisac short, convex, yellowish, transversely striated, 3 millim. 
long and 3 millim. high. Boiled in a solution of KOH it 
colours the liquid an orange colour with a pink tinge. The 
derm becomes soft and colourless. 
Antennee variable, of seven or eight joints, eight being the 
typical number. All joints bear hairs. Length 476-564 
millim. Length of joints: (1) 79-89, (2) 57-70, (3) 95-111, 
(4) 57-66, (5) 53-66, (6) 35-48, (7) 40-44, (8) 62-70. 
Approximate formula: 31 (2845)67. Legs large; tarsus 
curved. Length of joints of first pair of legs: coxa 178, 
trochanter and femur 400, tibia 289, tarsus 173, claw 62, 
digitules of claw 75. ‘T'arsal digitules slender, short, with 
slightly expanded ends, not extending beyond the tip of 
claw. Digitules of claw narrow, with ends slightly ex- 
panded. Rostrum small, situated just behind the insertion of 
the first pair of legs. Rostral loop extending to the second 
pair of legs. Anal plates triangular, the antero-lateral side 
shorter than the postero-lateral. Anal ring with six hairs. 
Around the lateral margin of the body there are several 
(three or four) confused rows of long sharp hairs. The 
ventral surface bears many round spinnerets and some smaller 
glands, while the dorsal surface bears numerous small oval 
glands. 
Male scale thin, white, narrow, elliptical; dorsum and 
ventrum slightly convex; usually covered with a thin white 
secretion. Length 1°75 millim.; width 1 millim. 
Adult male orange in colour, oval, widest across the thorax, 
Antenne of ten joints, all bearing many hairs, joint 10 
having in addition three long knobbed hairs. Length of 
joints: (1) 62, (2) 70, (8) 102, (4) 155, (5) 218, (6) 178, 
(7) 178, (8) 183, (9) 89, (10) 120. Legs long and hairy. 
Genital spike narrow, ‘480 millim. long. The last segment 
of the body bears three long hairs on each side of the genital 
spike; the other segments bear four to six shorter hairs on 
each side. Halteres wanting. Length of body, excluding 
genital spike, 1°450 millim.; width ‘730 millim. 
Larva (just hatched).—Oval, orange-yellow in colour. The 
