Sept. 1S38.] TOWNSEND & COCKERELL : On MEXICAN CoCClD/E. 173 



plate of lac-tube subcircular ; group of glands elongate-oval, widened end of group 

 contiguous to border of plate ; glands oval, closely packed. Anal tubercle prolonged 

 at sides into long spine-like processes only a little shorter than width of tubercle at 

 their origin, and longer apparently than the caudal filaments which are to be seen 

 between them. The specimens are evidently adult. The lac of young specimens is 

 disposed in a perfect star-like form, and the color is reddish-brown. 



On branches of Acacia sp., Orizaba, Vera Cruz State, July 15, 1897. 

 (Koeble 1721). Div. Ent., No. 7927. 



Tachardia mexicana Comst. 



Lac in color reddish-brown, shaded to reddish-yellow. 



Q . Antennae 6-jointed, formula (23) 4 (15) 6, stout, outwardly bowed, nearly 

 equal in width throughout, first joint a little wider than rest ; sixth joint narrowest, 

 rounded, very short ; second and third about as long as wide. 



On branches of Mimosa sp., Oaxaca, Oaxaca State, August 21, 1897. 

 (Koebele 1664). Div. Ent., No. 871. [C. H. T. T.] 



Capulinia sallei Sign. 



Adult Q • Antennae very short, atrophied, represented by a mere tubercle, not 

 as high as broad, surmounted by several (about 4 to 6) hairs, not chitinous. Mouth 

 parts large and well developed. Legs atrophied, front and middle pairs represented 

 by a sharp conical stump, chitinous, triangular in outline, but little longer than basal 

 width, usually distinctly 3-jointed, the third joint point-like. Hind legs nearly twice as 

 long as others, of same structure, form and outline, except that they are nearly twice 

 as long as basal width. The two stigmata on each side of body distinct, chitinous. 

 Anogenital ring small, chitinized on its edge, without hairs; the integument thickly 

 clothed all around it, within a radius of 8 to 10 times diameter of chitinous portion of 

 ring, with what appear like short hairs but are probably minute elongate glands or 

 tubular spinnerets, giving the area a thickly dotted appearance which ends abruptly. 

 The specimens studied, after being boiled, measure 1^ to 1% mm. in diameter. 

 They boiled clear easily. Boiled in KHO stains liquid greenish-yellow. 



$ . What is apparently the male scale is creamy- white, cottony but of close 

 texture, entirely covering the immature male, subquadrangular in dorsal outline, a 

 little flattened, and 1 y z to nearly 2 mm. long, by % to *> mm. wide. An immature 

 male pupa shows a broad stout chitinous anal horn, twice as long as width at origin, 

 rather bluntly pointed, triangular in outline, and with a long strong chitinous spine 

 approximated to it underneath, taking its origin on ventral surface at a distance an- 

 terad of origin of anal horn equal to fully or a little more than the length of latter, 

 the point of spine reaching beyond the middle of length of latter and paiallel with 

 it. The legs are well developed ; femora, tibiae and tarsi rather swollen, coxse and 

 trochanters narrowed, the femora thinly and the tibire and tarsi more thickly clothed 

 with minute bristles, the tarsi with a well-formed claw at end. Femur plus trochanter 

 distinctly shorter than tibia plus tarsus. The long many-jointed antennae do not 

 show the segmentation distinctly enough to be described. The length of the pupa, 

 as mounted, is I ^ mm. 



I have no doubt that this is Signoret's species. Not only do the 



