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Indian Museum Notes. 



C Vol. III. 



NOTES ON COCOANUT PALM COCCIDjE. 

 By W. M. Maskell, F.R.M.S. 



[The following insects attack cocoanut palms in the Laccadive Islands. For 

 further particulars see page 7. — £d.l 



Daciylojnux cocotis Maskell. 

 Transactions N. Z. Institute, 1889, Volume XXII, p. 149. 

 A variety of this species occurs on cocoanut palms in the Laccadive 

 Islands, India. The differences from the type which inhabits Fiji are 

 as follows : — The Iudian insect is scarcely red in colour, inclining rather 

 to yellow, and the antennae have (at least frequently) only seven joints. 

 The first point is very unimportant, and as to the second there are at preseut 

 known six or seven species of Dactylopius in which the antennal joints 

 vary from seven to eight. The marginal tufts of small hairs, the char- 

 acters of the feet, the form of the larva, and other features, are similar 

 in both Indian and Fijian specimens, and they may therefore be properly 

 considered as specifically identical. 



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