Luglisia. 283 
INGLISIA CHELONIOIDES, s/. xov. 
(PLATE CVII.) 
Test of adult female (fg. 2) glassy ; colourless; delicately and closely striated 
horizontally, and partially so perpendicularly ; the marginal plates with concentric 
striez. The whole test strongly laterally compressed. Dorsum covered medially 
by a large conical plate ; a similar but smaller posterior plate, followed by a 
divided anal plate; a large inverted boat-shaped plate above the cephalic 
extremity ; a marginal series of eight small quadrangular plates on each side. 
Length 8mm. Breadth, at base, 250mm. Height 4°50 mm. 
Body of insect (as seen through the glassy test) castaneous. Dorsum pro- 
duced into a sharp median point, with divergent paired unciform dorsal processes 
at the junctions of the three large dorsal plates. There is also a prominent 
point corresponding with the centre of the posterior dorsal plate. In the 
diagram (7g. 3) the area occupied by the body of the insect is shaded. 
With only a single example of this remarkable little insect, 1 am unwilling 
to destroy its form by dissection, and am consequently unable to describe the 
limbs and dermal characters. 
Newly hatched larva (zg. 4) elongate, narrow ; posterior extremity with two 
long setze from the anal lobes and a longish marginal hair on each side. 
Stigmatic clefts each with a conspicuous pair of flabelliform hairs (jig. 5). 
A single example, found on a small twig of Gelonium lanceolatum. 
Pundaluoya. July. Several larvee emerged and were transplanted on to the 
bush, but failed to establish themselves. I am inclined to think that Gelonzum 
is not the normal food plant of the insect. In form and colour it bears a 
remarkable resemblance to a rose thorn, and it is possible that its proper 
habitat may be a thorny plant. Under a lens the texture and colour of the test 
resembles tortoiseshell, and the arrangement of the plates is also suggestive of 
the carapace of a tortoise or turtle. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE €VII. 
INGLISIA CHELONIOIDES. 
Fig. 1. Adult female, 27 scfm, x 1°25. 
2. Test of female, side view, x Io. 
3. Diagram, showing area occupied by the body of the insect, x ro. 
4. Newly hatched larva, dorsal view, x 100. 
5 9 x rb stigmatic area, X 500. 
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