326 Asterolecanium. 
ASTEROLECANIUM CERIFERUM, var. PROMINENS. 
(PLATE CXXIII. FIG. 5.) 
Differs from the type principally in the form of the female test, which, seen 
in profile (fig. 5), slopes distinctly upwards to the posterior extremity. There 
is also a complete absence of the pitting of the leaf and of the hypertrophied 
cell structure on the opposite surface, the insects consequently standing up 
prominently from the surface of the leaf. Structure of adult female as in type : 
the marginal paired pores slightly larger and more distinct. 
On under surface of foliage of small-leaved bamboo, Oxytenanthera 
thwaitesiz. Newera Eliya (above 6000 ft.). 
