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12. Aspidiotus nerit, Bouche. — Common on Tea, Loranthus-, 

 Dalbergia^ Palms, etc. 



Localities Punduloya, Kandy, Colombo. 



13. A. aurantUf mask. — On Agave (American aloe) and Citrus 

 pomela. 



Locality Punduloya. 



14. A. osbeckiie, n. sp. — On stems of Osbeckia, not common. 

 Allied to neriif but differs in the opaque brownish shield, and the 

 marginal hairs of the insect. Male with black apodema. Feet with 

 4 knobbed digitules. Terminal joint of antenna with 5 knobbed 

 hairs. 



Locality Punduloya. 

 i<,. A, occultuSy n. sp.— In minute galls on leaves of Grewia 

 orietitalis. Female pale yellow : no grouped spinnerets. Male with 

 4 digitules on feet, and 3 knobbed hairs on terminal joint of antenna. 

 Locality Punduloya. 



16. A, trilobitiformis, n, sp. — On leaves of unidentified tree. 

 Female shield broad and flat, opaque, reddish brown. Insect very 

 regularly and symmetrically formed ; segments strongly marked : a 

 deep transverse groove behind the cephalic segments. Pygidium 

 with well-marked reticulated patch on upper surface. 



Locality Punduloya. 



17. Diaspis lanata^ Morg. and Ckll. — Very common on stems of 

 geranium, Callicarpa lanata, and Tylophora asthmatica. Very des- 

 tructive to cultivated geranium, the stems often being completely 

 covered with the white male puparia. 



Locality Punduloya, 



18. D, circulata, n. sp. — Common on young tea plants, and on 

 the twigs of older bushes : also on Cinchona and Osbeckia. Female 

 shield yellowish : pellicles usually dark, with a small whitish central 

 boss surrounded by several concentric raised circles. Insect yellow. 

 Male unknown. 



Locality Punduloya. 



19. Mytilaspis citricola^ Packard. — On orange, and leaves of 

 Cocculus indicus. 



Localities Punduloya, Kandy. 



20. M. elongata, n. sp.— On leaves of Arundinaria. Female 

 shield very long and narrow, snowy white. Insect also very long ; 

 almost linear ; pale yellow to orange. Male with 4 knobbed 

 digitules on feet, and 6 knobbed hairs on terminal joint of antenna. 



Locality Punduloya. 



