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ROBERT NEWSTEAD. 



Male puparium. Similar to that of the female, but slightly narrower ; the ends 

 equally rounded. Colour as in female. Length, 15 ; width, 0*5. 



The puparia of the young females (2nd stage) are amber-yellow in colour. 



Mauritius ; Botanic Gardens, on palm trees, 1915 (E. d'Emmerez). 



A really handsome species and the only one known to me which has such brilliantly 

 coloured puparia. 



Lecaniodiaspis tarsalis, sp. nov. 



Female test. Colour warm buff ; narrowed slightly posteriorly ; dorsum convex, 

 with a median interrupted longitudinal ridge, and about twelve transverse ones on 

 each side. Orifice terminal, circular ; projecting from it, in some individuals, is a 

 short white waxen filament. Texture dense ; surface with exceedingly minute 

 whitish particles. Length, 2-2*2 mm. ; width, 1-2-1 '3 mm. 



Female, adult. Legs (fig. 10, a, a) well developed ; anterior tarsi unusually long, 

 with a deep and clearly defined dorsal constriction ; tibiae relatively short, from 



Fig. 10. Lecaniodiaspis tarsalis, Newst., sp. n., $; a, a, legs; 

 c, marginal spine ; d, anterior stigmatic spine ; e lf tubular glands 

 and 8-shapecL pores ; /, anal segment. 



b, antennae; 

 e ot cribriform 



one-half to one-third the length of the tarsi ; digitules long, those of the tarsi very 

 faintly knobbed. Antennae (fig. 10, b) normally curved, of nine segments ; 8th 

 with a short hair, 9th with several ; relative length of individual segments varying 

 slightly, 2nd and 3rd usually the longest, but sometimes the 6th is as long as the 3rd. 

 Marginal spines (fig. 10,c) stout and rather bluntly pointed ; these are widely separated. 

 Anterior stigmatic spines (fig. 10, d) two, both spathuliform, one-half the length of 

 the other ; posterior pair both short and very widely separated. Tubular glands 

 (fig. 10, ej generally distributed over the whole of the derm, and so numerous as 



