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Ceroplastes quadrilineatus. Newst. 

 Uganda: Kimi Is., Lake Victoria, v. 1914 (Dr. G. I). H. Carpenter). 



Ceroplastes rubens, Mask. 



S. India: Ganyon District, Chicacola ; on mango, iv.1910 (T. V. R., per B. 

 Ballard). Zanzibar : Maruliubi ; on young orange trees, 16. vii. 13 (Dr. W. M. Aders). 



Ceroplastes ugandae, Newst. 



Uganda : Mount Mubendi ; on an unknown tree, 1 .x. 10 (C. C. Goivdey). 



It is necessary to call attention to the fact that this insect so closely resembles 

 Ceroplastes egbarum subsp. fulleri, Ckll., in the form and colour of the waxen test that 

 the two insects are apparently inseparable. But the $ of C. ugandae may at once be 

 distinguished by the presence of three large bi-lateral tubercles, all of which are 

 distinctly larger than the rudimentary caudal process. : ' The broadly ovate group 

 of circular pores," described by me* as occurring immediately above the stigmatic 

 clefts, are really not pores but minute conical spines. In a well cleared specimen 

 which is now before me, these structures are very distinctly displayed. 



Ceroplastes vinsonioides. Newst. 



Uganda : Mabira Forest ; on coffee, 28 . xii .12 (CO. Gowdetj). 



Pulvinaria burkilli, Green. 



S. India: Coimbatore : on Zizuphus sp., 19.iii.13 (T. B. Fletcher). 



Two imperfect females and many male puparia. One example has the normal 

 number of segments to the antennae (eight), while the other presents only seven, of 

 which the 4th is nearly as long as the 3rd. 



Pulvinaria cupaniae, Ckll. 



Jamaica; on Ficus sp., 1916, heavy infestation; "on mulberry imported last 

 year from U.S.A.," v. 1916 (A. H. Ritchie). 



Pulvinaria jacksoni, Newst. 



Uganda: Kampala; on Aranthemum bicolor, 4.vih.l5 (C. C. Gowdejj) ; chiefly 

 young adult $$ without ovisacs. British East Africa : Nairobi ; on granadilla, 

 iii.1914 (T. J. Anderson). 



Pulvinaria psidii, Mask. 



Uganda: Mabira, on coffee, 15.x. 10 — heavy infestation; Mpumu, Chagwe, on 

 coffee, 12. xii. 12 (C. C. Goirdey). British East Africa : Kikuyu, on coffee, i. 1914 

 (T. J. Anderson); Bukoba, on " nsambyia," 8.vi.l2 (C. C. Gowdeij). S. India: 

 Coimbatore, on mango, Feb. 1914; Koilpati, on guava, x.1907 (T. V. R.. per 

 E. Ballard). 



Ten of the Mabira females were prepared for microscopical examination ; all of 

 these had their bodies completely traversed by the hyphae of a fungus, which I 

 believe to be a primary parasite. 



* Bull. Ent. K>s., ii, p. 94, fig. 8c (1911). 



