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ROBEKT NEWSTEAD. 



flat, geniculated, and finely spinose ; just within the margin is a series of long, slender, 

 simple spines. The young adults are reddish buff in colour, with the pits and hollows 

 of the roulette border piceous or dark castaneous. Length, 3-4 mm. 



Female, second stage. Short ovate, flat, with the sides slightly raised. Colour 

 pale reddish-buff. Marginal spines (fig. 8, b) broadly digitate and similar to those 

 in the adult, but usually with one of the lateral projections more pronounced than 

 the rest ; and a broad, flat, falciform and spinose one alternating more or less with 

 the others. 



Larva (at period of ecdysis) with the marginal spines as shown in fig. 8, c. 



Gold Coast : Aburi, on cacao, ? 1913 (W. H. Patterson). 



Separable from S. sjostedti, Ckll., by the form of the marginal spines (in all stages) 

 and by the sculpturing of the dorsum in the adult female. 



Stictococcus multispinosus, Newst. 



Male puparium. Like that of Kermes qaercus (Linn.) ; a white, felted, elongated 

 sac, and very brittle. Two examples were found wedged in between the old adult 

 females. Neither was quite perfect ; one contained a propupa, the other was empty. 



Fig. 9. Stictococcus multispinosus, Newst., sp. n. : 



a, terminal segment of $ ; b, head of <$ ; c, marginal 



spines of larva. 



