128 ROBERT NEWSTEAD. 



examples has almost entirely disappeared, owing apparently to detrition, and has 

 assumed a distinct scurfy appearance, which is also patchy and irregular, or arranged 

 in ill-defined transverse bands. 



Ceroplastodes cajani, Mask. 



S. India : Coimbatore ; on red gram ; on Zizyplius, Feb. 1909 ; on Ocimum 

 sanctum, Feb. 1910; Anantapur Dist.. on wild indigo, April 1907 (T. V. R., per 

 E. Ballard). 



Inglisia chelonioides, Green. 



S. India: Coimbatore; on Parkinsonia aculeata, 27.vi.14 (T. V. Ramakrishna, 

 per E. Ballard). 



Inglisia conchiformis, Newst. 



Gold Coast : Aburi ; on Gliricidia maculata, 12 . i . 16 ( W. H. Patterson). " Native 

 host could not be traced. All available material forwarded. Difficult to dry. No 

 parasites found. No economic damage, as only one plant infested." (W. H. P.). 



Ceroplasfes actiniformis, Green. 

 S. India : Coimbatore ; on coconut, x.1908 (T. V. R., per E. Ballard). 



Ceroplastes africanus, Green. 



South Africa : 1914 (D. a" Emmerez). Uganda : N.E. of Lake George ; on 

 acacia, 20.vi.ll (C. C. Gowdey). 



The nipple- like process on the dorsum of the waxen test, characteristic of typical 

 examples of this insect, is wanting in all Mr. Gowdey's specimens, the position of these 

 processes being indicated by a rather deep depression. 



Ceroplastes ceriferus, Anderson. 

 S. India : Coimbatore ; on " wild elm," x.1909 (T. V. R., per E. Ballard). 



Ceroplastes cirripediformis, Comst. 



British Guiana : Berbice, on Hum crepitans, in association with Lecanium 

 (Akermes) sp., 27.xi.13 ; Georgetown, on Ipomea sp., 3.L14 (67. E. Bodkin). 



Ceroplastes denudatus, Ckll. 



British Guiana: Demerara ; on a wild species of Solanaceous plant, x.1915 

 (H. W. B. Moore). 



Ceroplastes ficus, Newst. 



South Africa : Wonderboom ; on Ochra pulchella, 1914 (D. d'Emmerez). Gold 

 Coast: Aburi; on Anona (W. H. Patterson). 



Mr. Patterson's $ 2 are larger than those of the type lot, which came from Uganda 

 (Bull. Ent. Res., i, p.' 191, fig. 5). 



Ceroplastes personatus, Newst, 

 Gold Coast : Aburi ; on Cqffea liberica, 3.xii.l5 (W. H. Patterson). 

 This is the onlv additional record since its discovery in 1898. 



