72 U. NEWSTEAD — NOTES ON SCALE-INSECTS (COCCIDAE). — PART I. 



Uganda: Entebbe, 10. viii. 11 (C. C. Goicdey). 



The females were so numerous in some instances as to cover almost completely 

 the stems of the food-plant (Haranya madayasearicusis), looking somewhat like 

 small glass beads accidently fastened to the branches. It is a very remarkable 

 and highly interesting species, easily distinguished by its hemispherical form, 

 the glass-like texture of the integument and the fringe of immense spines at the 

 margin of the body. 



Recently I have discovered that the larvae of Stictococcus sjoestedti, Ckll., are 

 dimorphic ; so that, including the larvae of S. dimorphus, Newst., and those of the 

 insect herein described, there are now three known species of Stictococcus 

 having dimorphic larvae, a character which is of the highest interest for the 

 zoologist. 



J have the greatest pleasure in dedicating this insect to its discoverer, 

 Mr. C. C. Gowdey, who has done so much towards extending our knowledge of 

 the Coccid fauna of Uganda. In this connection I would urge him to search 

 diligently for the males whose puparia may possibly occur upon the leaves or 

 some other portion of the food-plant some distance away from the females. 



Ceroplastes coniformis, sp. n. 



Female, test (fig. 6). — Thin and distinctly cone-shaped, with the apex bluntly 

 pointed ; not divided into plates, but with a more or less distinct, minute, ovate 



Fig. 0. — Ceroplastes coniformis, Newst. 



patch of secretion at the apex of the test, and in the more perfect individuals 

 some small white patches of secretion over the stigmatic clefts. Colour trans- 

 lucent yellowish-brown, sometimes with indefinite darker markings due evidently 

 to foreign matter. Height, 3'9-4*7 mm. ; greatest diameter at base, 2*8-4 mm. 



