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that his variety wridis might actually be a new species, “v. nov. vel 
n. sp.,” it seems necessary to give his name full nomenclatorial stand- 
ng and to replace the name viridis of F Fuller, since Fuller’s name was 
first published more than a year after viridis was used in Parlatoria 
by Cockerell, and since it actually stands for an apparently distinct 
Australian species. No indication has been found in lterature that 
this situation has been recognized previously, and indeed there is 
no evidence that the species “has been known to present-day coccid 
workers. The conclusions here reached and the descriptive informa- 
tion presented have been based on a study of specimens from Fuller’s 
type material and from other sources as indicated. 
Adult female——Hyespot a small, irregularly oval, sclerotized spot, often 
difficult to locate and possibly lacking at times on one or both sides of the 
body. Anterior spiracles with 2 or 38 disk pores adjacent, more often with 
2; posterior spiracles with a relatively conspicuous invaginated pocket about 
midway between spiracles and margin. Duct tubercles stout conical, apices 
slightly rounded, bases more or less widened; numbers for one side of body 
as follows: Prespiracular, range 1 to 3, average 1.56; anterior spiracular, 
range 1 to 6, average 3; interspiracular, range 2 to 5, average 3.25; posterior 
spiracular, range 2 to 5, average 3.65; first abdominal, range 2 to 4, average 
3; totals, range 9 to 19, average 14.33. Submarginal dorsal tubular ducts 
moderate in number in the specimens tabulated, ranging from 17 to 47 on each 
side, with an average of 27. No intermediate dorsal tubular macroducts, but 
with microducts on dorsum of anterior ahdominal segments, the number and 
arrangement varying considerably and difficult to ascertain accurately in im- 
perfect specimens; without microducts within frame of paragenitals, very 
rarely with a single duct on each side above paragenitals, but with one to 
several such ducts on each side and often also on or near the midline on re- 
maining anterior segments, the numbers noted in the specimens tabulated, 
listing the segments from the pygidium anteriorly, as follows: First, range 
1 to 5, average 2.24, sometimes with 1 median duct; second, range 2 to 8, 
uyeiace 4, sometimes with 1 or 2 median ducts; third, range 2 to 6, aver- 
ge 3.4, usually with a median duct; fourth, range 1 to 6, average 2.9, nor- 
Ae with 1 or 2 median ducts; fifth, range 1 to 5, average 2.6, often with 1 
or 2 median ducts. A small, approximately circular cicatrix usually present 
dorsally on each side of abdomen, apparently on the anterior margin of 
the second abdominal segment. No special sclerotic flecks observed. Three 
pairs of normally developed lobes, rather slender, nearly uniform in size, 
strongly notched on both inner and outer margins; fourth and fifth lobes 
represented by oval, strongly fimbriate structures practically identical in ap- 
pearance with adjacent plates. Plates not peculiar, those between normal 
lobes not unusually slender, those beyond third lobes mostly oval in shape. 
with constricted base; outer margins of all but those on anterior abdominal 
segments strongly fimbriate. Paragenitals characteristically in 2 elongate 
groups, 1 on each side of genital opening, each group more or less constricted 
near middle, indicating a probable relationship to or derivation from those 
species having 4 separated clusters of paragenitals; the total number of para- 
genital pores ranging from 37 to 63, with an average of 51, and the range in 
1 compound cluster from 18 to 382. 
The previously published discussion of this insect appears to have 
been based entirely on Fuller’s original collection. In this study 
specimens from several sources have been examined, including part 
of Fuller’s type material, in the national collection of Coccidae ; on 
Pittosporum (Pittosporaceae) from Perth, Western Australia, on 
Pittosporum from Melbourne (No. 338) and Brisbane (No. 1099), 
on Acacia (Leguminosae) from Lismore, New South Wales, on palm 
(Palmae) from Sydney (No. 20263), and on “various plants” from 
Sydney (No. 634), all collected by George Compere. In addition 
the insect was collected at quarantine at Philadelphia on palm from 
