104 Mr. A. Hempel on Brazilian Coccide. 
is indented on the margin and bears two to four very small 
spines and one larger one, and has a double row of forty-five 
to sixty small round spinnerets extending to the spiracle. 
The ventral surface bears a double row of long hairs between 
the last pair of legs and the genital opening and four long 
hairs between the antenne. ‘The abdomen bears many small 
tubular glands, and numerous large round spinnerets are 
grouped about the genital opening. 
Larva (just hatehed).—EHlliptical, light yellowish brown. 
Antenne of-six joints, joints 3 and 6 longest and about equal 
in length. Legs slender, all the digitules fine, with slightly 
knobbed ends. Margin of the body finely serrated, with a 
few minute hairs. ach stigmatal area bears one short, 
blunt, curved spine. Hach anal plate bears a long terminal 
seta. Rostral loop extending to the anal cleft. Hyes small, 
conical, dark brown. Length 453 millim.; width :276 millim. 
Hab. Ypiranga. On twigs and leaves of L//yriea sp. and 
other plants of the order Myrtacezes. Rare. 
Genus LICHTENSIA, Sign. 
Lichtensia argentata, Hempel. 
Ovisac, covering the adult female, curved, 8°5 millim. long, 
4:25 millim. wide, and 1°50 millim. high. The inside is a 
white, loose, cottony structure that adheres to objects that it 
touches ; over this is a thin covering of cream-coloured closely 
felted material, which in turn is covered by a very thin layer 
of glassy secretion, giving the sac a shiny silver-grey appear- 
ance. Adult female elliptical, orange, posterior end of body 
light yellow and wider than the anterior end. Length, after 
boiling in a solution of KOH, 6 millim.; width 3°d millim. 
The derm becomes soft and transparent. 
Antenne variable, of eight joints, all but joints 3 and 4 
bearing hairs. Length °519-"556 millim. Length of joints: 
(1) 48-57, (2) 66, (3) 141-146, (4) 75-84, (5) 53-64, (6) 48, 
(7) 85-40, (8) 53. Approximate formula: 3 4 2(518)67. 
Legs long. Length of joints of first pair of legs: coxa 156, 
trochanter and femur 364, tibia 244, tarsus 110, claw 31, 
digitules of claw 53. ‘Tarsal digitules very long, with ex- 
panded ends. Digitules of claw short, trumpet-shaped, with 
the ends obliquely truncated and widely expanded. Rostrum 
situated between the first pair of legs; rostral loop short, not 
extending halfway to the insertion of the second pair of legs. 
Anal cleft short, scarcely *75 millim. long. Anal plates 
triangular, each with six short hairs, the antero-lateral side 
shorter than the postero-lateral. Anal ring with ten hairs. 
