TJIE COCCI DAE 01' SOUTH AFRICA. '21 



" Male puparium. Consisting of two distinct parts ; the lower half boat-shaped, 

 and of a glassy vesicular texture, as in those typical of the genus Lecaniiun ; the 

 upper portion opaque, low. convex, and of a dirty beeswax colour, with nine narrowly 

 rectangular, submarginal patches of snow-white secretion. Anal cleft ap])arently 

 obsolete. On the emergence of the male the whole of the upper portion falls away, 

 leaving the ventral half attached to the food-plant. The line of cleavage between 

 the upper and lower portion is clearly defined in those puparia from which the 

 imprisoned male has not escaped. Length TG mm. 



'' South Africa, 1914 (de Charmoy)." (Newstead.) 



This species is apparently not represented in the collection of this Division. 



225. Ceroplastes candela, Ckll. & King. 



Ceropldstes candela, Ckll. & King, The Entom. xxxv, p. 113, 1902. 

 " $. Long 2§, lat. 3.V, alt. 4|- ; dark red-brown, elevatsd, with vertical sdes. 

 Caudal horn a prominent stout spine, hardly J mm. long, placed nearer the top 

 of the scale than the base. Dorsum smooth and shining, with only a very small 

 central raised line. Sides of insects with vertical stripes of dense secretion ; no 

 wax, except that composing these stripes, between the insects, which are densely 

 crowded together, their vertical sides contiguous. They rest on a thin substratum 

 of wax, and are covered above with yellowish-whita wax, about 1 mm. thick. The 

 outlines of the insects are vaguely marked on the surface of the covering wax by a 

 brownish stain. The wax, with the insects beneath, surrounds the twig as the wax 

 does the wick of a candle ; the whole mass is about 20 mm. diameter, that of the 

 t vig being about 5 mm. 



" Mr. King found the antennae to measure thus in jti : — 



Joints .. .. (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) 



Length .. . . TyQ 68 56 60 28 



Breadth.. ..64 48 40 32 28 

 " Found by Mr. Fuller at Richmond, Nat.il. The nearest ally is an undescribed 

 species from Paraguay, collectsd by Professor Bruner." (Ckll. & King). 

 This species is not represented in the collection. 



226. Ceroplastes combreti, sp. n. 



Test of $ about 3 mm. long, broad and high, conical, with the anterior side a little 

 more precipitous than the posterior, which is somewhat excavate above. There 

 are no plaques, but the whole body of w^ax is arranged in ± distinct columns, three 

 on each side. The apex is blunt, bearing an opaque white ridge surrounded by six 

 opaque white spots — the tops of the columns. Between the two most prominent 

 lat3ral ridges are the distinct white stigmatic bands which extend from the base 

 to the crown. The colour, when fresh, is bright rose- red with darker transverse 

 marks. 



The antinnae are 8-jointed ; range in ii : (1) 37-44, (2) 56-61, (3) 34-48, (4) 27, 

 (5) 37-4 K (6) 20-24, (7) 17-24, (8) 37-41. ' 

 Leg I : coxa 75, femur -f trochanter 180, tibia 129, tarsus 85, claw 20//. 



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40 



28 



24 



