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Indian Miisenm Noles. 



C Vol. III. 



NOTES ON COCO AN UT PALM COCCI D^. 



By W. M. Maskell, F.R.M.S. 



[The following insects attack cocoanut palms in the Laccivdive Islands. For 

 further particulars see page 7. — £d.] 



DactylopiuH cocotis Maskell. 

 Transactions N. Z. Institute, 1889, Volume XXII, p. 149. 

 A variety of this species occurs on cocoanut palms in the Laeeadive 

 Islands, India. The differences from the type which inhabits Fiji are 

 as follows : — The Indian insect is scarcely red in colour, inclining- rather 

 to yellow, and the antennse have (at least frequently) only seven joints. 

 The first point Is very unimportnnt,and as to the second there are at present 

 known six or seven species of Daetylopius in which the antennal joints 

 vary from seven to eight. The marginal tufts of small hairs, the char- 

 acters of the feet, the form of the larva, and other features, are similar 

 in both Indian and Fijian specimens, and they may therefore be properly 

 considered as specifically identical. 



/xpirliotvs destructor Signoret. 



