ft. NEWSTEAD — NOTES ON SCALE-INSECTS (COCCIDAE). — PART I. 73 



Female, adult, — Form similar to that of the test, but slightly less bluntly 

 pointed dorsally. Integument strongly chitinised, pale yellowish-brown, margins 

 and a small area surrounding the anus dark red-brown. Cephalic area constricted 

 and forming a slight projection in front. Stigmatic clefts small, but very clearly 

 defined and studded with small conical spines ; externally the spines occupy a 

 relatively small area, and vary slightly in size. Derm with rather large, ovate 

 and translucent pores at the margin, being especially numerous on the cephalic 

 projection ; those of the dorsum minute and very widely separated. Caudal 

 process rudimentary and varying from dark castaneous to black or piceous ; 

 anal lobes small and widely rounded distally. Antennae (fig. la) of six segments, 

 the third being equal to or a little longer than the three succeeding segments 

 together; fourth, fifth and sixth each with a stout spinose hair. Legs (fig. 7I>) 

 with the tarsi as long as the tibiae, the latter distinctly produced ventrally ; 

 digitules normal. 



a 



Fig. 7. — Ceroplastes couijonuis, Newstead ; a, antenna of adult f'omalu ; 



6, lesr of same. 



Measurements very slightly less than those of the thin waxen covering 

 or test. 



Female, second stage. — Subcircular in outline ; margin with bright yellow, 

 tubercular appendages formed of secretionary matter similar to those in the male 

 puparia ; dorsum pale brown (in dead example), with patches of yellow secretion 

 arranged more or less in regular sequence and distinctly separated. The position 

 of the stigmatic clefts is indicated by a single long stout seta-like process which 

 projects considerably beyond the margin. 



Male puparium, — Rather narrowly elongate, extremities equally rounded ; 

 margin with a series of well-marked tubercular projections, each tubercle 

 furnished at the tip with a few stiff spine-like processes ; dorsum not divided 

 into plates, but covered with flake-like patches of secretion. Colour bright pale 

 yellow ; texture glass-like. 



Uganda : Entebbe, 16. xi. 12 (C. C. Gowdey). 



Taken on Ficus sp. in the Botanic Gardens. 



This is a markedly distinct species of Ceroplastes, easily recognised by the 

 unique cone-like form of the female and its test or waxen covering. 



