SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES ON THE COCCID4 OF CEYLON, 67 
Adult male (emerged 26th October) pale creamy white, tinged with lilac : 
head fuscous : notal plates fulvous : apodema reddish. Form normal, Ter- 
minal joint of antenna with 3 knobbed hairs, 1 at apex and 2 at side, Foo: 
with 4 digitules. Genital sheath dilated at extremity (fig. 1). 
.The ordinary food plant of the species proves to be MNothopegia 
Colebrookiana, 
M, D’E. de Charmoy has recently described what I can only consider to 
be a variety of trilobitéformis, under the name of Asp. darutyi, (‘Revue Agri- 
cole’, July, 1898), It occurs on‘ Mango’ in Mauritius. The only appreciable 
difference is in the colour of the female puparium which is almost pure 
white, 
ASPIDIOTUS THE, Mask,, var, RHODODENDRI, n, var. (PI. A, figs. 2, 3), 
Asp, thee Mask, ‘Ind Mus, Notes,’ Vol. II, p. 59, 
Asp, thee, ‘“ Trans, N, Z. Instit.” 1891, p. 1. 
Asp. thee, Do, Wo, 1892, p. 207, 
Female puparium very dark chocolate-‘rown, almost black, but concealed 
_ by a greyish coating composed of the tomentose hairs of the leaf upon 
which it rests, Form approximately circular, the outline often affected 
by a prominent vein of the leaf ; flattish. -Pellicles thin, yellowish, usually 
quite concealed. Secretionary part stout, compact and hard, Diameter 
2°50mm. 
Male puparium whitish, median area tinged with brown. Pellicle yellow. 
Form oblong, rather narrow aud elongate. Pellicle close to anterior extre- 
mity. Length 1°82 mm, Breadth 0°75mm., 
' Adult female (fig. 2) with a well defined transverse furrow behind the 
prothoracic segment, Form oblong : median area (mes - and ineta-thorax) 
broadest. Division of segments defined by transverse thickened lines, 
Margin rather deeply incised at junction of segments, Body hard, chiti- 
nous and polished, retaininy its shape after death, On the cephalic area 
are several indefinite irregularly circular translucent patches besides 
some thickened bands, Anterior spiracles with conspicuous group of para- 
stigmatic glands, Pygidium (fig. 3) with a reticulated median dorsal patch 
with clearly defined boundaries, Numerous conspicuous oval dorsal pores, 
with thickened rims, in irregular series, Eight,prominent lobes ——as in thee : 
the median pair broad, indistinctly notched near the extremity of both 
inner and outer edges : other lobes very narrow, spatulate, the fourth pair 
notched on the outer edge. Squames narrow : each with three points at 
extremity: extending as far aslobes: situated in the space between the 
lobes only, none outside the last lobe. Circumgenital glands in four crowded 
groups with numerous orifices, the upper groups largest. Anal aperture 
' very small, situated at lower extremity of reticulated patch. 
Length 1°25 to 1°7i5mm, Breadth 1:0 to 1:°25mm, 
Adult male not observed, 
