290 E. T. Atkinson — On the Romopterous Family Coccidge. [No. 3, 



antenna3 are 7- jointed. The adult is long of a brown neither yellow 

 nor red, with the segments paler ; as it grows older, the colour deepens 

 especially on the head and corneous portions of the pronotum : tegmina 

 long, broadly rounded, of a more or less deep grey, reddish towards 

 the side : halteres long, yellow, with a single recurved bristle at the 

 tip : pronotum long, rounded on the sides, straight in front, rounded 

 behind, with a blackish arch on the mesonotum. Abdomen long, 

 ending in a rounded, thick armature furnished with some hairs : lateral 

 lobes of each segment presents two long filaments of a white cottony 

 substance secreted by a group of rounded spinnerets, in the midst are 

 two long hairs and a smaller, around which the matter secreted is con- 

 densed ; the lobes above have much smaller ones with but 2 — 3 rounded 

 spinnerets. Head thick, in the form of a ball or a little truncated in 

 front, more convex beneath than above and pubescent, except on the 

 pigmentary circle of the eyes and ocelli of which there are perhaps 

 four. Feet long, with a broad tarsus, flat, pubescent, presenting a very 

 long and narrow hook or claw ; the digitules of the tarsi are not thicker 

 than ordinary hairs and have a very small knob at the tip. 



$ . The larva varies in size with its age, is flatter, of the same 

 elongated form and same colour but the antennae are G-jointed. 



S . The larva is of a uniform shape but more elongate and the 

 antennae are 7- jointed. The moult preceding the imago state is often 

 indicated by a rolling up internally of the rostral filaments and some- 

 times by the future antennae and tibiae, the latter of which are already 

 indicated interiorly in the members of the larva. {Sign.). 



Mr. J. Nietner {I. c.) describes the Ceylonese form of this insect as 

 follows : — 



2 . Apterous, oval, brownish-purple, covered with a white mealy 

 powder which forms a stiff fringe at the margin (one tooth or tuft to 

 each segment on either side) and at the extremity of the abdomen 2 

 setae. The dorsum has three longitudinal and a number of transverse 

 corrugations, the latter corresponding with the number of segments : 

 upon each of the three longitudinal corrugations, the mealy secretion 

 forms a sort of ridge-cap. The antennae, legs, and rostrum are of a 

 light brown colour and slightly pubescent : the antennae are setaceous, 

 8-jointed of which the last joint is the longest, nearly as long as the 

 legs and porrect. The rostrum is situate between the first pair of legs, 

 having a few hairs but no sucking bristles at the tip. 



cf . Light sordid brownish, slightly pubescent : head rather 

 square, enlarged behind and rounded off at the poterior angles ; eyes 

 prominent, black ; ocelli two, small, lateral ; antennae 9-jointed, second 

 joint longest, third shortest, 4 — 9 subequal : [mouth externally re- 



