SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES ON THE COCCID OF CEYLON, 69 
Male(either scale or adult insect )not observed in Ceylon. Newstead describes 
the male scale as being of the same colour and structure as that of the female. 
Habitat.—In Ceylon, on Cycas revoluta ( Kandy ): on stems of cultivated 
rose trees, on leaves of ‘ Kina; Calophyllum sp. ( Pundaluoya): and on 
Ivy leaves (Watagoda),. 
This species can be readily distinguished from all others by the remarkable 
lanceolate processes on the margin of the pygidium, which however are not 
easily seen except in a stained preparation, 
The type was described by Morgan from Demerara, The variety arece 
was received by Mr. Newstead from the same locality. The species occurs 
also in India, on the Tea plant. 
ASPIDIOTUS FICUS. 
I am informed that the specific name should be accredited to Ashmead, 
( instead of to Comstock, as quoted in Part I of the “Coccide of Ceylon’’), 
At the time of publication of my earlier part, the male scale of this species 
had not been observed in Ceylon, I have since found it abundantly on leaves 
of Rhododendron arboreum in Nuwara Eliya, 
ASPIDIOTUS ORIENTALIS, Newstead. 
Asp. osbeckie, Green, *‘ Coccide of Ceylon,” Part I,p. 47, pl. VII. 
I now believe that the insect to which I gave the name of osbeckie is 
identical with A. orientalis, described by Mr. Newstead from Madras ( Indian 
Museum Notes, Vol. III, No. 5}. 
I have since found the same species on the stems of Atylosia candollii 
in Pundaluoya. 
ASPIDIOTUS TRANSPARENS, Green, 
Asp. transparens, Green ( part ), “ Catalogue of Coccide,” Indian Museum 
Notes, Vol. IV, No. 1, 1896. , 
Ex-error, A. latanice, Sign,, ‘‘ Coccide of Ceylon,” 1896, p. 49. 
There has unfortunately beena double mistake in my determination of 
this insect, which has creatly confused the nomenclature, 
Firstly I confused two distinct species (transparens and destructor) under 
the one name. And secondly I re-determined the (two) insects as latanie 
of Signoret. Ihave since been enabled to examine type specimens of 
Signoret’s latanie, which has convinced me that the Ceylonese form is quite 
distinct, It will therefore revert to one of its earlier names, The name 
transparens was originally applied by me ( ‘‘ Insect Pests of the Tea Plant”) 
to the species occurring on Tea, which I now find to be identical with the 
destructor of Signoret. But in my “Catalogue of Coccide”’ the insect now 
under consideration was included under the name transparens, which name 
may therefore be conveniently retained. 
The description of the supposed lataniw inmy “ Coccide of Ceylon ” 
was drawn up chiefly from the present species : but the yellow variety of 
the male, represented on Pl, VIII, is that of destructor, 
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