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smaller appendages, the outer ones diverging from the central one ; these processes 

 are however often wanting and seem to be readily abraded ; many of them are 

 also strongly recurved over the dorsum. Length, 1*5-1 "7 mm. 



Male. Dried examples dull red-brown or dusky brownish-crimson. Ventral 

 ocelli in a single pair. Antennae (fig. 18, a) short and stout and of ten segments. 

 Genital armature styliform and very long. No visible trace of caudal filaments, 

 though the usual organs for the attachment of these are present. Wings strongly 

 and beautifully iridescent, and when seen by direct light the membrane appears 

 distinctly and regularly punctate. 



This Ceroplastes has twice previously been recorded (loc. cit.) as being doubtfully 

 referable to C. ceriferus, Anderson ; and this chiefly because of the striking simi- 

 larity of the old adult females to those of the latter. With a more extensive series 

 of specimens, in all stages, one has been able to gather that the Uganda insect is in 

 many ways markedly distinct ; more especially so are the young adult females, 

 the male and its puparium. 



Ceroplastes egbarum, Ckll. 



Male puparium. Narrowly elongate ; ventral half shaped like a shallow boat, 

 opaque glassy white ; upper half also glassy beneath, but covered with a thick, 

 opaque, creamy- white layer of wax ; with or without a median depression, in the 



Fig. 19. Ceroplastes egbarum, Ckll., $ pupa, X 130. 



centre of which is a very short elongated process of white faintly segmented secretion, 

 which is broadly divided transversely in the centre. Marginal processes similar ; 

 three on each side and two cephalic. The dorso- ventral scales are rather widely 



