122 Transactions.—Zoology. 
Genus, Diaspis, Costa. 
(Trans., vol. xi., p. 192.) 
1. Diaspis santali, sp. nov. 
Puparium of female yellowish-grey in colour, sometimes with a greenish 
tinge, outline oval; very convex: pellicles black, very inconspicuous, placed 
at one end of the puparium. 
Adult female orange-red in colour, reaching +; inch in length, peg-top 
shaped ; the abdominal segment very small as compared with the rest of 
the body, and the two next segments slightly overlap it. Abdomen ending 
in two conspicuous, prominent, median 
lobes, and at each side of them two semi- 
circular depressions: several branched 
and serrated hairs in the region of these 
lobes. ‘There are no groups of spin- 
nerets, nor can I detect any single ones. 
There is no wide depression of the edge between the median lobes. 
Male puparium elongated, with plack pellicle: but I have not seen the | 
insect itself. 
On twigs of Maire (Santalum cunninghamii), sent me by C. Winkel- 
mann, Esq., from Napier. It is in company with Rhizococcus fossor, de- 
scribed below : but the latter is always on the leaves of the plant. 
The forms of the male and female puparia show this insect to be a 
Diaspis, though it seems in many respects to resemble rather Aspidiotus. 
I find no described species of the genus possessing the same features in the 
abdominal segment, especially the absence of spinneret groups. Nor do I 
think it is a Chionaspis. : 
Genus, Fiorinia, Targioni-Tozzetti. 
Mr. Comstock (loc. cit., p. 110), discards the above name and calls the 
genus ““Uhleria ,” for the reason, he says, that Targioni, establishing it to 
include the original species Diaspis fiorinia, changed the specific name to 
pellucida, “ According to the rules of nomenclature now generally adopted 
by zoologists,” he says “ the original specific name must be restored and 
a new generic name given.” I think this is a great pity if correct, and 
tends to introduce endless confusion, and prefer to leave the original name 
as above. 
The characteristic feature of this genus is the great size of the female 
pellicle of the second stage, which almost, or quite, fills the puparium. 
1. Fiorinia minima, sp. nov. 
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Figs. 2, 8. 
The puparium is oval, being indeed almost altogether made up of the 
second pellicle, with a narrow edge of fibrous secretion, as shown in the 
