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The following corrections for typical transparens may be noted, - 
The median lobes are scarcely tricuspid ; but are usually notched on the 
outer edge only, though there is sometimes a slight emargination on the inner 
edge close to the extremity, The median are as long as or slightly longer 
than the lateral lobes. 
There are a few very inconspicuous dorsal pores, communicating with some 
of the filiform spinneret ducts, The squames and spines are as in destructor 
though the dorsal spine at base of median lobes is not quite so lowe: 
as in that species. 
Habitat.—On Dalbergia championii, on Mesa indica, and on several un- 
identified plants. 
ASPIDIOTUS DESTRUCTOR, Signoret, (PI. B, fig. 5.) 
Asp, destructor, Sign, “ Essai,’ 1869, p. 129, (94), 
Do. wg Tide Museum eee ay Vol. III, No. 1, pp. 7, 67. 
Asp. transparens, Green, “ Insect Pests of the Tea Plant,” 1890, p. 20, 
Do. ( part ), “ Catalogue of Coccide,’ Indian Museum Notes, 
Vol. IV, No. 1, 1896. 
Asp, latanice, Sign. (part), “ Coccide of Ceylon,” 1896, p. 49. 
Upon a re-examination of the material described in my ‘‘Coccide of 
Ceylon,” Part I, uuder the name of Asp. latanie, Sign.,it becomes evident 
that two distinct species have been included under the one name. By external 
examination alone the two insects are indistinguishable : and even the 
microscopical characters do not, at first sight, show any wide divergence. 
But the two forms may be separated by the size of the median lobes, 
which in destructor aresmall and conspicuously shorter than the first lateral 
lobes : while in transparens, (for by this name the second species must 
now be known ), the median lobes are larger ani project beyond the 
others. 
As destructor has not previously been recognised from Ceylon, a detailed 
description of the species is appended. 
Female puparium very pale yellowish, almost colourless : transparent, 
showing the form of the sublying insect and eggs, Pellicles very pale clear 
yellow. Form circular: very flat : smooth, or very finely wrinkled in a 
radiating direction, Diameter of scale averaging 1°75 mm. 
Male puparium similar to that of the female, but smaller and more oval. 
Size 1x 0°75 mm. 
Adult female rounded in auone tapering and pointed behind. Body 
flattish, Colour pale yellow: margin of pygidium tinged with rufous, 
Antenna consisting of the usual small tubercle and curved hair, Spiracles 
without parastigmatic glands, Pygidinm (fig 5.) with six lobes, the median 
pair shortest and dark coloured, All the lobes rather narrow, notched on 
the outer edge : the two lateral lobes constricted at base and situated on 
the marginal prominences. Squames longer than the lobes, fimbriate : 2 
