OF THE UGANDA PROTECTORATE. 



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closely together; median dorsal plate narrow and elongate. Integument 

 between the waxen plates of various shades o£ horn-coloured brown, in the 

 dried examples. 



Male pvpar'ium elongate, with 13-14 white marginal appendages, the 

 three anterior and the three posterior ones being much the smallest ; median 

 dorsal plate narrow and more or less irregularly divided transversely. These 

 plates are attached to a glass-like layer which, when denuded of wax, is of 

 the typical Lecaniid form. 



Lenoth 1'25 mm. 



The striking similarity which these puparia bear to those of the second 

 larval stage in the female of other known species, possibly accounts for the 

 fact that they have hitherto been overlooked by students of this group of 

 insects. 



Judging by the morphological characters of the young larval females, I 

 am of opinion that the male puparia are conspecific with the preceding- 

 species. 



On Bark-Cloth {F'mis sp.) ; Bukoba, German East Africa, 4.iv.l0 (T. C. 

 Goicdei/, no. 1326 j. 



Fig. 0. — Ceroplastcs qnadrilineatus, Newst. ; adult females (test.s). x2. 



Ceroplastes quadrilineatus, sp. n. 



Test of adult female (fig. 6). — Dorsum with a pair of large, divergent, 

 pyriform bodies, the narrowed portions of which meet together immediately 

 over the anal orifice ; these very prominent swellings are of a dull crimson 

 colour with distinct and well defined, narrow, transverse, blackish bands ; 

 under a low magnification the banding has the appearance of strife, so that 



