124 Transactions.— Zoology. 
3. Fiorinia stricta, sp. nov. 
Figs. 5-9. 
Puparium very narrow, the length being about five times the width. 
The second pellicle fills almost the whole of it, half of the first pellicle 
appearing at the cephalic end, and a very narrow edge of secretion running 
down the sides, which are almost straight and parallel. The diagram 
(fig. 6) shows the arrangement. Length of puparium about # inch: colour, 
for the female, almost black; for the male, white. 
The first pellicle shows the compressed cylindrical form of the head, 
spoken of under the last insect, F. grossularie. Indeed, this appears to be 
a character common to all the genus Fiorinia in this country, with the ex- 
ception of F. minima. 
The second pellicle, which forms the puparium, appears to be entire 
throughout almost all its length. But at the posterior end, as shown in 
fig. 6, it is cut across by several transverse corrugations dividing it into 
narrow segments; and the edge, generally semicircular, is sharply serrated, 
but the serrations are not so deep as in F. minima. This pellicle is very 
strong and hard, and by its dark colour makes the puparium altogether 
look black. 
The adult female is very small in comparison with the second pellicle 
(fig. 6). After gestation, indeed, it shrinks up at the cephalic end so as to 
become difficult of detection. It has the general form of Mytilaspis, with 
compressed cylindrical head. The lateral corrugations bear no spines. 
The abdominal segment (fig. 5) is somewhat elongated, and the edge is 
broken into a number of protruding, sharp-pointed lobes, giving it the. 
appearance of acomb. There are no median lobes like those of almost all 
other Diaspide. Spinnerets normal of the genus, the three upper groups 
joined in an arch. Length of adult female before gestation about s's inch : 
colour dark brown or purple. 
The male paparium is, in shape, similar to that of the female: but of 
- course, as there can be here no second pellicle, it is composed almost 
altogether of fibrous secretion. Its colour, therefore, is white, with the 
first pellicle, which is black, at the cephalic end. Length, about +; 
inch. 
The adult male has the normal form, generally, of the Diaspidw. The 
antenne (fig. 7) have ten joints, of which the first two are very short, the 
rest long, thin, hairy, and about equal to each other, except the last, which 
is a little shorter and broader, being irregularly fusiform. Amongst the 
hairs on this last joint is one a little longer than the rest and bearing a ter- 
minal knob. Foot normal (fig. 8); the claw is very slender, and the four 
knobbed digitules are fine hairs. There is a strong spine at the extremity 
