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ON A COCCID INJURIOUS TO PINE TREES IN THE HIMALAYAS. 



By E. E. Green, F.E.S., F.Z.S. 



(Plate XVII.) 

 Ripersia resinophila, sp. nov. 



Adult female (as observed in specimens preserved in alcohol) broadly oval (fig. 1, 

 6, c), strongly convex (fig. 1, a), circular under compression ; divisions of segments 



Fig. 1. Adult female of Ripersia resinophila. 



Green, sp. n., X 9 ; a, lateral view ; 



b, ventral view ; c, dorsal view. 



indicated on the dorsum by moderately deep transverse furrows : marginal area 

 tumescent, overlapping the ventral area (fig. 1, 6). Colour (of alcoholic material) 

 ochreous, brownish, or olivaceous, very thinly powdered with white mealy secretion. 



Fig. 2. Antennae of Bipersia resinophila, 

 X 210 ; a, normal 6-jointed form ; 

 b, c, intermediate forms ; d, 7-jointed form. 



Antennae very small : 6- or 7-jointed (fig. 2, a, d), with intermediate forms showing 



incomplete division of the 3rd (fig. 2, b) or of the 6th (fig. 2, c). Antennal formula of 



normal 6-jointed form, 6, 2, 3, 5, 4, the 6th twice as long as the 2nd. In the 7-jointed 



(C221) f2 



