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slender base, is much dilated for two-thirds of its length, and is surmounted 

 with a single straight hair. Legs rather stout, with a few short scattered hairs ; 

 claws narrow and pointed ; digitules to tarsi very small, and there is a strong spine 

 at the apex of the tarsi. Q-enital armature straight. Long., "75 — 1 mm. 



Hah. : Chuchle, near Prague, Central Bohemia ; on Pinus syl- 

 vesfris, generally between the leaves near the base, and often in 

 company with Aspidiotus abietis, Sch. Collected by Herr Karel 

 Sulc, May 6th, 1894. 



As to the colour of the living ^ Dr. Low {I. c.) says : " blackish 

 olive-brown, with rather lighter greyer abdomen, and pale, often rather 

 reddish, antennae and legs. In the middle of the mesonotum is a very 

 glassy, equally broad, almost straight, convex, transverse band, which, 

 on both sides, is truncate, and is only a little darker than the back." 

 The rest of his description of the (^ agrees with mine in every par- 

 ticular. 



The presence of only one moult in the scale of the ? is curious 

 and abnormal ; nothing is said of this in the previous descriptions of 

 the species. I have ventured to describe the only moult as the second, 

 as it is much larger than the larval moult on the two (^ scales in my 

 possession. In the entire absence of the marginal fringe of blunt 

 hairs, and grouped spinnerets, I am inclined to think my specimens 

 are slightly immature ; although from their large size they do not 

 appear to be so. The crenulated fringe of the pygidium is like that 

 of a Parlaioria, to which genus I at first thought the species belonged. 

 Later, if the material can be obtained, it is intended to further inves- 

 tigate the matter, and if possible to clear up the discrepancies. 



POLLINIA GRANDIS, 11. Sp. 



$ . Adult viviparous ; antennee and legs absent ; mentum uniarticulate, apex 

 widely rounded, filaments short and slender ; anal tubercles very small, and without 

 hairs ; margin all round with a single row of double spin- 

 nerets (fig. 1). Very difficult to restore with potash, and 

 for this reason I could find no trace of the anal ring, and 

 the anal tubercles were only found in a single specimen. 

 The form of the $ is also doubtful. The body shrivels at 

 gestation, and is then yellowish-brown, and visible through 

 the scale. 

 C^ Scale of the $ semi-opaque, glassy-white, highly con- 



vex, slightly pyriform, widest behind ; anal extremity with 

 a very short tubular opening, which projects upwards j mar- 

 gin with a rather wide single cilia all round, and of the same 

 Fig. 2. Pig. ]. colour and material as the scale, but is often broken away, 



and entirely wanting in some specimens. Long., 2 — 3 mm. 



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