340 Pollinia, 
POLLINIA, Zaregzont-Tozzette. 
Pollinia, Targ., Bull. Soc. Ent. Ttal., Vol. 1. p. 263 (1869); Sign., Ann. Soc. 
Ent. Fr. (5), Vol. X. p. 274 (1870). 
Adult female enclosed in a waxy or horny test differing from that of 
Asterolecanium in the absence of a marginal fringe of glassy filaments. In 
Signoret’s diagnosis of the genus, the test is described as irregular, but this 
cannot be considered as a good generic character, being founded only upon a 
knowledge of a single species (fol/inz, s. coste). Cockerell has described 
Pollinia ovoides, with a rough irregular test ; but that insect is very doubtfully 
congeneric with #ol/znz, having characters much more closely related to 
Cerococcus. 
The adult female insect of typical Pod/znza is distinguished from that of 
Asterolecanium by the absence of a marginal series of paired (8-shaped) glands. 
It has numerous paired glands on the disc of the dorsum ; but this, again, is 
not essentially a generic character. In the genus Asterolecanium, we find 
certain species, with dorsal paired glands, and others in which they are totally 
absent. The characters of the anal segment are closely similar to those of 
Asterolecanium, consisting of a pair of minute anal lobes or tubercles, each 
bearing a stout seta and a simple anal aperture. The antenne are 
rudimentary, and the limbs absent. There are no stigmatic spines, or 
cribriform plates. 
The larvee of foldinz have marginal and dorsal series of 8-shaped glands, 
and there is a triangular median plate between the small anal lobes—on the 
dorsal aspect. 
The larva of the single Ceylon species that I have included in this genus has 
not been observed. 
The adult Ceylon insect differs from the type in being enclosed in a 
symmetrically circular translucent test, differing only from that of Asterolecanium 
in the absence of a marginal fringe. The insect itself is devoid of paired 
dermal glands. In other characters it conforms sufficiently well with the 
original diagnosis of the genus, 
