-80 CHAS. K. BRAIN. 



The three lateral projections of each side are shorter and more bluntly pointed. 

 The depressed area which separates the central cone from the intermediate area is 

 coarsely punctate. The central cone is regular, elongate, oval at the base and 

 roundly pointed at the apex. There is no sunken area in the centre. 



The caudal projection is exceptionally short, bluntly conical, projecting at an 

 angle of about 45° with the ventral surface. 



Antennae 8-jointed ; range in /i : (1) 44-5], (2) 48. (3) 58-68, (4) 34-37, (5) 

 27-34, (6) 20-24, (7) 20-24, (8) 37-48. 



Integument clear, hyaline, except for the extreme margin, marginal expansions 

 and caudal prominence, which are densely chitinised. The anterior margin is broadly 

 rounded with a distinct parallel- sided chitinous band. Lateral margins with two 

 almost circular expansions on each side. These are much larger than those found 

 in miynosae. 



Habitat : On " monkey rope," Natal coast, Umbilo and Equeefa Rivers, 

 Collection No. : 88a. 



230. Geroplastes eucleae, sp. n. (Plate ii, fig. 239). 



Adult 9 tests sometimes single on stem, often aggregated in dense masses. Test 

 of adult $ about 6 mm. long, 5 mm. wide and 5*5 mm. high, without plaques but 

 with the lower portion forming a wrinkled fold at the base of a highly conical dome. 

 The colour is a delicate green, when alive, with the stigmatic bands conspicuous 

 (fig. 239) ; when dry, it is semi-transparent, greenish yellow, with two white thin 

 streaks on each side just above the stigmatic clefts. The central dome is pointed, 

 without any central pit or depression, and is distinctly separated from the lower 

 portion of the test by a groove. There is no indication of a caudal prominence on 

 the test. 



Female, denuded of wax, smooth, regularly domed, without caudal prominence, 

 chitin pale brown and moderately thin ; portion surrounding the anal plates deep 

 castaneous. Caudal prominence rudimentary, indicated by deeper coloured 

 chitin. When cleared, the derm is moderately chitinous. That of the dorsum 

 is very finely rugose with very scattered small, transparent spots. The denser, 

 marginal folds have in addition a few larger holes. 



Antennae 6-jointed ; range in fi : (1) 24-30, (2) 37-40, (3) 91, (4) 17-24, 

 <5) 24-27, (6) 40. 



The legs are moderately developed, normal. 



Stigmatic clefts with a series of short, conical, thimble-shaped spines, which 

 'extend in a single row for some distance along the margin on either side of the cleft, 

 where they compose a double row. About the middle of the group is a large spine, 

 about twice as large as the others. Within the double row is a collection of small 

 simple glands like the circumgenital glands of the Diaspinae. 



Habitat : On stems of several native shrubs, including Euclea sp., Ochia sp. ?, 

 Favetta sp. ?, etc., Pretoria ; collected by Miss E. Impey, January 1915. 



Collection Nos. : 90 and 342. 



