xn, D. 1 Robinson: Coccidse of the Philippine Islands 3 



hairlike. Derm with numerous hairs and ceriferous glands 

 (Plate I, fig. 2), varying in size and form on various parts 

 of the body. Larvae with more of the mealy secretion ; antennae 

 6-jointed. (From the original description.) 



Luzon, Laguna, Los Banos (C. F. Baker), on Leucosyke 

 capitellata. 



Icerya Candida Cockerell. 



Icerya Candida Cockerell, Proc. Davenport Acad. Sci. (1905), 10, 128. 



Adult female with ovisac not grooved, pure white, dense, 

 a few glassy filaments, about 7 millimeters long. Antennae 

 dark red-brown, 11- jointed, joint four the shortest, eleven 

 longest and slender, two and three subequal and longer than any 

 between three and eleven (Plate I, fig. 4). Legs ordinary, 

 dark reddish, anterior femora stout. Young with caudal bris- 

 tles longer than the body; antennal club stout with very long 

 bristles. (From the original description.) 



Luzon, Manila (C. H. T. Townsend) , on a cultivated tree. 



Icerya seychellarum (Westwood). 



Icerya seychellarum (Westwood) Fernald, Cat. Coccidae of the 

 World (1903), 27; Cockerell, Proc. Davenport Acad. Sci. (1905), 10, 

 128; Cockerell and Robinson, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. (1915), 34, 

 428. 



Adult female about 5 millimeters long, with ovisac smooth, 

 entirely yellow or with edges spotted and anterior portion 

 colored with yellow, filaments numerous. Antennae dark brown, 

 11-jointed, joints four to nine very similar and beadlike, eleven 

 the longest, of the others two and three the longest, all of the 

 joints with numerous hairs (Plate I, fig. 5). Legs heavy, dark 

 brown. Entire body with dense hairs. 



Luzon, Tayabas, Lucban (Toivnsend), on Rosa; Laguna, 

 Los Banos (Baker), on Citrus decumana, Diospyros kaki, and 

 Ficus minxihassae ; Manila (Baker), on Psidium guajava. 



Genus DROSICHA Walker 



Type, Drosicha contrahens Walker. 

 Female soft, somewhat elongated, more or less hairy with 

 cottony or powdery secretion; antennae 9-jointed; no posterior 

 ovisac. Male with ten abdominal processes. 



Synoptic table of the species. 



a\ Only the male described palavanica. 



a'. Only the female described lichenoides. 



