300 Lecantodiaspis, 
LECANIODIASPIS MALABODA, sf. nov. 
(PLATE CXIII.) 
Test of adult female ( /Zgs. 1 to 4) oval, more or less pointed behind ; strongly 
convex above ; with faint transverse and longitudinal ridges (fig. 4). On fresh 
examples (jigs. 2, 3) there are five longitudinal series of opaque white waxy 
processes, broad at the base, tapering to a point at the apex. In worn ex- 
amples, these processes may be represented only by small pads of white wax, 
or may be entirely wanting (jig. 4). The test itself is of a very compact tough 
material ; dull brown to reddish brown in colour. The posterior extremity is 
cleft by a narrow elongated anal aperture, with raised margins. Length 3°5 to 
5mm. Breadth 2°5 to 375 mm. 
Male puparium (/g. 5) oblong, rounded at the extremities. Posterior ex- 
tremity with a large circular operculum. A very inconspicuous median carina. 
Colour and texture similar to that of female. The single specimen obtained is 
old and worn. Fresh examples may possibly show waxy processes correspond- 
ing to those of the female. Length 2mm. Breadth 1 mm. 
Adult female insect (/ig. 6) broadly oval; strongly convex above. Antenna 
(fig. 7) with eight distinct joints; the apex with several stiff curved hairs ; a 
single curved hair on the side of each of the sixth and seventh joints. Stigmatic 
spines well developed ; usually two opposite the anterior, and one opposite the 
posterior stigmata; each spine grooved for the greater part of its length (fg. 8). 
Limbs rudimentary ; the anterior pair jointed, the joints swollen and globose 
(fig. 9); the other limbs consisting of a single stout piece, with rudimentary 
claw and digitule at the apex (fg. 10). Anal segment (fg. 12) deeply cleft ; 
the cleft enclosed ventrally by a large densely chitinous bilobed dermal plate, 
each lobe of which is approximately triangular. The median dorsal plate also 
is bilobed behind, but the emargination is comparatively small, and the apices 
of the lobes are broadly rounded. There are two small straight setaa—one on 
each side—crossing each other at the opening of the cleft. The anal ring 
carries eight stout hairs, each of which is flattened and expanded in the middle, 
tapering to a fine point at the extremity (zg. 13). The margins of the cleft and 
the adjacent area bear numerous minute spicules. The area on each side of the 
anal plates is crowded with thick-rimmed circular pores ; similar pores are 
thickly strewn over the ventral surface of the abdomen, in the form of broad 
transverse bands across the segments. The whole dorsal surface is strewn with 
8-shaped glands, which are of several sizes, the smallest being on the abdominal 
segments. There are six cribriform plates, arranged in two longitudinal series 
on the abdomen. They are rather densely chitinous, with the pits arranged in 
dense clusters (jig. 11). There are a few small spiniform hairs on the marginal 
area. A series of minute multiocular pores connects each spiracle with the 
corresponding stigmatic spines. Length 2°5 to3 mm. Breadth 2°25 to 1°5 mm. 
Adult male unknown, ; ; 
