86 THE WOMBAT. 



Lecaninae. 



Larva? active, naked ; adult females and pupae active or 

 stationary : adults sometimes apodous ; abdomen of females 

 exhibiting a median cleft and two dorsal lobes. 



Hemicoccinae. 



Larvae) active, naked, exhibiting at the abdominal 

 extremity two protruding anal tubercles. Adult females 

 exhibiting abdominal cleft and dorsal lobes ; naked or covered 

 with secretion. 



Coccinae. 



Females in all stages exhibiting anal tubercles ; no 

 abdominal cleft or dorsal lobes : naked or covered with secretion. 



Monophlebinae. 



Adult females active or stationary : naked, or covered 

 with mealy, cottony, or waxy secretion : anal tubercles in- 

 conspicuous : antennae of ten or eleven joints. Males with 

 facetted eyes and no ocelli. 



Brachyscelina j . 



Adult females inhabiting woody galls : sometimes apodous 

 and without antennae. 



The above characters have been included in this paper 

 in the hope that it may facilitate the work of anybody desirous 

 of turning his attention to the family, as I understand that 

 a fire in the Government Printer's Office, N.Z., destroyed in 

 1890 all the unsold copies of Maskell's Scale Insects i887 ? So 

 that the re-publicatiou of them may hereafter be of some value. 



In the synoptical list of genera presented with this paper, 

 it appears that 29 genera have already been reported from 

 Victoria. My object in including all the known Australasian 

 genera being, that although they have as yet not been re- 

 ported from Victoria, they may be so hereafter, and future 

 discoveries may extend the list, and it was thought desirable 

 to make the " List " as complete as possible. 



