3^ CHAS. K. BRAIN. 



Cleared and mounted the integument is thin and hyaline. Margin with a dense 

 series of stout conical spines, so closely set that the row appears, in places, double. 

 The derm is clear except for a double row of large simple glands extending along the 

 median line from the anal plates to the middle of the dorsum. 



Antennae 5 or 6-jointed, the individual segments badly defined even in stained 

 preparations ; range in /; :— 5-jointed : (1) 24, (2) 14, (3) 41-51, (4) 24-34, (5) 24-27 ; 

 6-jointed: (1) 20-24, (2) 10-14, (3) 48-51, (4) 10-17, (5) 14, (6) 20-24. 



Legs short but normal, e.g., coxa 41 ; femur + trochanter 102 ; tibia 75 ; tarsus 

 58 ; claw 17//. Anal plates about 90// long, each with two fairly stout spines about 

 4t{)u long. Stigmatic clefts obsolete. 



Larva about 390// long ; antennae 6-jointed ; caudal setae very long (170//). 



Habitat : On Zizyphus sp., Pretoria ; collected by the writer, December 1914. 



Collection No. : 101. 



This species is very close to /. conchiformis, Newstead, but is smaller and has 

 an antennae of 5 or 6 segments instead of 7. I thought at first that I was dealing 

 with young individuals of Newstead's species but mounted specimens contain well 

 developed embryonic larvae. 



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Genus Cryptinglisia, Ckll. 



" A Lecaniine Coccid having a glassy covering containing air-spaces, and retaining 

 the legs and antennae (7 or 8 joints) in the adult. Living in galls on the roots of 

 Vitis, Differs from Inglisia in its mode of life ; in the glassy scale not being divided, 

 tortoise-like, into plates ; and in the air-cells running together, forming long air- 

 spaces. Larva ordinary, with six large bristles on the cephalic margin. Male 

 unknown." (Ckll.) 



242. Cryptinglisia lounsburyi, Ckll. 



Cryptinglisia lounsburyi, Ckll., The Entom. xxxiii, p. 173, 1900. 



Cryptinglisia lounsburyi, Lounsb., Rep. Ent. Cape Good Hope, p. 54, 1900. 



" Adult female about 2 J mm. long, soft, shiny, very dark brown, covered with a 

 semi-transparent, brittle, glassy scale. Skin transparent and colourless on boiling 

 in KOH ; mouth-parts moderate, rostral loop not very long ; margin with a row of 

 simple spines, brownish, about 24/< long, placed close together ; anal lobes ordinary, 

 about 160// long, yellowish brown, surrounded basally by a large, thick, dark brown, 

 chitinous plate, more or less semilunar in form, with the ends produced ; a row of 

 small round glands in the middle line from one end of the body to the other, but best 

 developed posteriorly ; antennae and legs pale ; legs ordinary, femur plus trochanter 

 about 120, tibia about 96, tarsus about 78, claw about 20// ; claw-digitules about as 

 long as claw, with large knobs ; tarsal digitules long, with distinct knobs. Antennae 

 7 or 8-jointed, haviijg three types, thus : (1) 7-jointed with a short 3, all the joints 

 subequal, 21 to 30// ; (2) 7-jointed with a long 3, which is about 41 ju long ; (3) 8- 

 jointed, with 2 quite short, and 3 and 4 each about 30// long. The terminal joint is 

 always short, 21 to 26/i. 



