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R. NEWSTEAD — SCALE INSECTS (COCCID^J 



each bearing one very long hair, ahnost equal in length to the body, and 

 3-4 short hairs of varying length. Margin with a regular series o£ conical 

 spines, widely separated. Stigniatic areas each with a single curved spine of 

 great length. 



This very singular coccid was first discovered by Dr. Slater Jackson in 

 the Jardin Botanique, Konakry, West Africa, on Averrlioa caramhola, L.,, 



Fig. 1. — Inglisia conch fonnis, Newst. j adult females. x2. 



November to January 1907-8, and said by him to be '^abundant on 

 the terminal branches." Soon after the material came into my ^hands I 

 found that the insect was undescribed, and I then gave it the manuscript 

 name Onicococciis concUformis (gen. et sp. n.) ; specimens were forwarded 

 to the British Museum and to other collections under this name, but no 

 description has hitherto been given by me. Mr. E. E. Green, w^ho has- 



