R. NEWSTEAD — NOTES ON SCALE-INSECTS (COCCIDAE). — PART I. 77 



Pulvinaria sp. n. 



Uganda : Entebbe, 26. vii. 11. (C. C. Gowdey). 



Among the many species of Coccidae collected by Mr. Gowdey in Uganda 

 is an enormous specimen of a female Pulvinaria, measuring, in its dried and 

 shrivelled condition, half an inch in length. This insect had secreted part of its 

 ovisac during transit so that there can be no doubt as to its generic position. 

 Without this evidence one might reasonably have placed it in the genus 

 Lecanium and have recorded it provisionally as a young form of /,. sallei, Sign. 

 The Pulvinaria is undoubtedly an undescribed species, but it is inadvisable 

 to describe it until more material comes to hand. 



Aspidiotus gowdeyi, sp. n. 



Puparium of female. — Very small, obconical and suddenly truncate at the 

 margin of the larval pellicle ; margin circular. Colour dark brown, outer margin 

 paler, upper margin orange-brown to pale castaneous. Larval pellicle completely 

 hidden beneath a glistening white secretion, which is perfectly flat, quite circular 

 in outline, and not raised above the upper truncate margin of the secretionary 

 covering of the puparium. Ventral pellicle thin. Diameter, 0*4-0'5 mm. 



Female, adult. — Broadly ovate, narrowed posteriorly ; integument very thin 

 and transparent ; presence of rudimentary antennae and parastigmatie glands 



Fig. 9. — Aspidiotus gowdey i, Newstead ; a, pygidium ; b and c, squamae. 



doubtful. Pygidium (fig. 9a) with six lobes; median lobes much the largest, 

 distal margin broadly rounded ; second and third pair small and somewhat tri- 

 angular, with the distal margins more or less pointed. Squamae very finely and 

 closely fringed ; those between the median and third pair of lobes and the three 

 succeeding ones, on either side, unusually broad (fig. 9c), the two proximal ones 

 (fig. 9/;) small and branched. Only two spines are traceable and these are placed 



