Mr. A. Hempel on Brazilian Coccide. 107 
Aspidiotus (Chrysomphalus) paulistus, Hempel. 
Female scale circular, flat, brownish black, covered with a 
grey or light brown secretion. ellicles blackish, placed 
centrally or slightly to one side, and covered with a small 
nipple-like mass of secretion. Diameter about 2°50 millim. 
Male scale of same colour and shape as that of the female. 
Diameter 1°50 millim. 
Adult female ovate. Pygidium with three pairs of lobes, 
slightly wider than long, subequal in size, the median pair 
being a trifle wider than the others, with the edges slightly 
indented. ‘There are four very long and conspicuous thick- 
enings of the body-wall at the base of the lobes and several 
shorter ones. The lateral edges of the pygidium are thick 
and chitinous laterad of the last pair of lobes and present four 
or five sharp-pointed lobes with serrated edges. Between 
the median lobes and the median and second pair of lobes 
there are two deeply incised plates; between the second 
and third pair of lobes and laterad of the third pair of lobes 
there are two deeply incised plates and onesimpleone. Four 
groups of circumgenital glands are present, the anterior laterals 
varying from six to ten, the posterior laterals from three to 
seven. ‘The anal orifice is close to the posterior lateral groups. 
Numerous very long slender tubular glands are borne by the 
pygidium, and a few are also borne by the other abdominal 
segments. The antenne are present as short tubercles with 
one stout curved hair. The posterior edge of the cephalo- 
thorax is on each side modified into a short hump or tubercle, 
but does not bear a horn or spine. The derm is transversely 
striated and bears a few hairs. Length 1:90 millim.; width 
1°50 millim. 
Adult male light yellow, with a narrow dark band across 
the thorax. Thorax long; segments of the abdomen 
shrivelled. Antenne of ten joints; joints 1 and 2 short; all 
joints bear many hairs; joint 10 apparently with one or two 
knobbed hairs. Legs long, hairy; claw very long and thin, 
with digitules extending beyond the tip. ‘Tarsal digitules not 
extending to the tip of claw. Wings ordinary; halteres 
present. Genital spike long, thin, sharp, ‘400 millim. long. 
Total length, including genital spike, :950 millim.; width 
*350 millim. 
Larva (just hatched).— Small, orange, elliptical, flat, about 
°275 millim. long and ‘150 millim. wide. 
Hab. Ypiranga and Sao Paulo. On the leaves of Laurus 
sp. and other cultivated and uncultivated bushes. 
