100 Mr. A. Hempel on Brazilian Coccidee. 
XV.— Descriptions of Brazilian Coccide. 
By Apo.tpx Hempet, 8S. Paulo, Brazil. 
[Concluded from p. 72.] 
Genus PuLvinaria, Targ. 
Pulvinaria ficus, Hempel. 
Dr. F. Noack, formerly of Campinas, told me that he had 
found Pulvinaria psidii, Maskell, at Campinas and Sao 
Paulo on the leaves of Psidium sp., and specimens in our 
collection, also on Pstdium, were identified assuch. A closer 
study of the specimens, however, shows that they do not 
agree with the description and figures of P. psidi’, Maskell. 
The specimens are here described as a new species. 
Adult female before gestation elliptical or oval, depressed, 
yellowish brown ; derm slightly wrinkled near the margin. 
Anal lobes dark brown; anal cleft scarcely 1 millim. long. 
Length 5 millim.; width 2°25 millim. Ovisace white, homo- 
geneous, oval, convex: length with dried and shrivelled 
animal 5 millim.; width 3°25 millim.; height 2 millim. 
The wax of ovisac is fluffy and adheres firmly to anything it 
touches. The insect begins to secrete the ovisac by first 
secreting a soft fringe of white wax around the entire margin 
of the body. Boiled in a solution of KOH it imparts to the 
liquid a light straw-colour. The derm becomes soft and 
transparent. 
Antenne variable, of eight joints, all bearing hairs; joints 
2 and 5 each bearing one very long one. Occasionally an 
individual will be found with only seven joints to the antenne. 
Length ‘425-540 millim. Length of joints: (1) 48-53, 
(2) 66-70, (8) 97-110, (4) 58-70, (5) 53-79, (6) 31-48, 
(7) 31-44, (8) 48-66. Approximate formula: 3(524)81(67). 
Legs long; trochanter with a very long hair ; tarsus slightly 
curved. Length of joints of first pair of legs: coxa 156, 
trochanter and femur 326, tibia 267, tarsus 120, claw 31, 
digitules of claw 62. ‘Tarsal digitules short, slender, with 
tips slightly expanded; digitules of claw large, with widely 
expanded ends. Rostrum ordinary, situated between the 
first pair of legs; rostral loop extending beyond the second 
pair of legs. Anal plates small, triangular, the antero-lateral 
side shorter than the postero-lateral. Anal ring with eight 
hairs. Around the lateral margin of the body there is a 
thickly-set row of short hairs, with tuberculate bases, and 
