1903.] H. W. Peal — Monograph of the Oriental Aleurodidse. 95 



The pupa extracted from its case is reddish-yellow, the rudimentary 

 feet and antenna? yellow, the rudimentary wings yellow with bands of 

 dark brown, the eyes dark-brown. 



Adult form with the thorax red, banded with brown ; the abdomen 

 red ; genitalia brown ; feet and antennae darkish-yellow, tipped with 

 brown. The antennae and feet are normal. Forewings with three 

 bands of dark- brown, of which the outer one does not quite reach the 

 margin at the extremity. The genitalia do not exhibit any special fea- 

 tures. 



Hab. In Ceylon, on {Piper nigrum?). My specimens were sent 

 by Mr. E. E. Green, from Punduloya. 



I know of no described species in which the larva and pupa have 

 such strong black spines as this. The wings of the adult are not parti- 

 cularly distinctive, for those of A. sacchari, Mask., 1889, have quite 

 similar bands. I have found it extremely difficult to correctly distin- 

 guish the dorsal spines on the pupa ; and the vasiform orifice also pre- 

 sents much difficulty. 



Aleurodes nubilans, Buckton. 

 Indian Museum Notes, Vol. V, No. 2, p. 36. 



Legs long and hairy with dimerous tarsi. Antennae rather long 

 and with seven (?) joints in the female, which is a larger insect than 

 the male. Wings four, rounded at the apices, and fringed with minute 

 hairs. A single unforked central nervure, not continued to the margin. 

 Membrane smoky in patches with a darker blurred spot. The male 

 smaller with a large thorax, taper abdomen, and furcate at the apex and 

 with hinder legs longest. 



The larvae crowd the undersides of the leaves of the betel in the 

 form of small scales very difficult to detach. They appear like scales 

 of some Coccidae, but these show no distinct organs such as antennae, 

 legs, or eyes. Their outer surfaces were more or less spined, and some 

 larvae-were tufted with woolly matter, each thread being formed of a con- 

 tinuous spiracle. 



This new Aleurodid was received on betel leaves from the Manager, 

 Court of Wards Estates, Backergunge, who reported that it was doing 

 considerable damage to the plants. 



N.B. — This Aleurodid was received and identified before I joined 

 the Entomological Section of the Museum. It is to be regretted that 

 no description was drawn up of the larvae or pupae. The types in the 

 Museum are too badly damaged for description. I hope hereafter to 

 describe the earlier stages. 



