32 J. W. SCOTT MACFIE — ON A NEW AFRICAN SPECIES OF COCCIDAE. 



minute pore with a narrow canal communicating with it. Abdomen covered 

 ventrally with small circular spinnerets especially at the posterior extremity and 

 along the periphery. The main spinning glands (figs. 2 B a, 2 C a), correspond- 

 ing to the ridges of the ovisac, placed singly round the margin of the body, just 

 dorsal to the marginal spines. Anal lobes (fig. 2 F) longer than in C. koebeli, 

 Green," each furnished with a variable number of spinose hairs at either pole ; 

 ano-genital ring with ten stout hairs. Margin with a close series of short 



Fig. 2. Ceronema africana, Macfie. 



Female. — (A) derm-cells; (Ba) large spinning gland; (B b) marginal spines; (Be) stigmal 

 spine ; (C) spinning gland and marginal spines more highly magnified ; (D) antenna ; 

 (E) tarsus ; (F) anal lobes. 



Male. — (G) male puparium. 



pointed spines (figs. 2 B b, 2 C b) ; a single larger spine (fig. 2 B c) marking the 

 stigmatic area. Antenna (fig. 2 D) nine-jointed ; third and fourth joints con- 

 siderably longer than the others, the third, fourth, and fifth apparently without 

 any hairs ; one particularly long hair is attached to the sixth joint. Legs rela- 

 tively small but well developed ; foot (fig. 2 E) with four digitules, dilated 

 distally, claw strongly hooked at the tip and with a minute tubercle on the 

 concave border near the extremity. Length, 6*2 to 8 mm. ; width 4*5 to 5 mm. 



• Coccidae of Ceylon, p. 256, pi. xevi, figs. 1-1G (1909). 



