B34 Asterolecanium. 
ASTEROLECANIUM SOLENOPHOROIDES, Gyveen. 
(PLATE CXXVII.) 
Planchonia solenophoroides, Green, Ind. Mus. Notes, Vol. 1V, No. 1, 
p. 6, 1896. 
Asterolecanium solenophoroides, Cockerell, Check List, p. 328, 1896. 
Test of adult female (/zgs. 9-13) colourless during life of insect, afterwards 
pale yellow ; hard and glassy; pyriform, the hinder third abruptly narrowed 
and elevated (fig. 10), forming a tube through which the larve make their escape. 
Dorsum very strongly convex above; margins flattened. In fresh examples 
there are three longitudinal series of erect, paired, curling, glassy filaments 
along the middle of the dorsum (/zgs, 10, 12), but these are very brittle and 
easily detached. A continuous submarginal fringe of comparatively short, 
paired divergent filaments (absent on the elevated caudal process), and a 
scattered intramarginal series of shorter paired filaments. These two series are 
probably representative of the nymphal and larval stages respectively. ‘The 
absence of the usual third (outermost) series of the fringe is peculiar, as the adult 
insect bears the normal marginal series of 8-shaped spinnerets. Length 
075 mm. Breadth o45 mm. 
Male puparium (figs. 16, 17) long and narrow, broadest in front ; dorsum 
with three rows of long glassy filaments ; a continuous marginal series of short 
divergent filaments, and the usual interrupted intramarginal series. Colour at 
first green, afterwards pale yellow. Length 1mm. Breadth 0°25 mm. 
Adult female greenish yellow ; at first of same formas the test (figs. 15, 18) ; 
after oviposition, the caudal extension is completely retracted (fy. 13). Spiracles 
submarginal. Anal ring (fg. 19) with six stout hairs; the chitinous dorsal lip 
interrupted in the middle. Marginal 8-shaped spinnerets (/zg. 20) very small, 
extending only to base of caudal process. In spite of the presence of dorsal 
filaments on the test, no corresponding glands are distinguishable on the 
dorsum of the insect. These dorsal filaments originate—probably—in the 
nymphal stage. Length of extended insect 0°70 mm. Breadth o'4o mm. 
Adult male (fgs. 1, 2) pale yellow ; apodema pale reddish ; ocelli black. 
Scutellum very large. Head broad behind ; lower pair of ocelli surrounded by 
short curved bristles (fig. 5). Antenne (jfég. 3) shorter than body; three 
knobbed hairs on apex of tenth joint (fg. 4); all the joints clothed with 
shortish stout curved hairs. Foot (fg. 6) with one ungual and two tarsal 
knobbed digitules. Wings comparatively narrow. Length o'5 mm. 
Young larva (fg. 15) pale green. Antenna with a long knobbed hair at 
apex. Foot with four knobbed digitules. 
Male and female puparia singly or in small groups on under surface 
of leaves of Avrundinaria sp. Pundaluoya. 
The specific name was suggested by the resemblance of the structure of 
the female test to that of Maskell’s genus So/enophora, which (owing to the pre- 
occupation of the earlier name) was subsequently altered to So/enococcus, which 
—in its turn—is probably referable to Comstock’s older genus, Cevococcus. 
