OF THE UGANDA PROTECTORATE. 



Ib^ 



The example from which this diagnosis is drawn is about half the size of the 

 old adult female test described above. 



"Test of the larva (fig. 3) formed of a more or less rounded mass of white 

 flocculent matter. 



Test or piiparium of tlie male (fig. 4) ellipsoidal in outline ; with an elon- 

 gate median patch or pad of densely felted white wax transversely divided 

 in the centre in a large percentage of specimens ; lateral waxen appendages 

 opaque white, forming a compact and contiguous series all round the margin^ 



Fig. 3. — Cei'oplastes shif/ularis, Newst.; 

 larvae. X 2. 



Fig. 4. — Ceroplastes swf/ularis, Newst. ; 

 male puparia. X 2. 



usually carrying patches of the flocculent matter secreted by the larva ; 

 beneath this external covering is a thin, opaque white, glassy layer of 

 secretionary matter having a large central elongated raised area surrounded 

 by a deep groove and concentric ridge from which the sides slope downwards 

 to the margin. The whole surface of this glassy layer is strongly and evenly 

 punctate ; and the anal lobes of the pronymph project beyond it relatively 



