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except close to margin, where it is 4 or 5 pores wide, 19-30 pores in group and row 

 combined ; multilocular pores, totaling 93-100 and with 9 or 10 loculi, in 6 com- 

 plete and 3 interrupted rows, the anterior row anterior to posterior spiracles, 

 posterior row with 8, penultimate with 8-13, each of next 4 rows with 12-20, 

 each of interrupted rows with 3-7 ; 2 or 3 dark-rimmed 8-shaped pores each side 

 of beak, a few scattered anterior to mouth parts, and a few on abdomen tending 

 toward arrangement in 6 transverse rows : submarginal 8-shaped pores in an 

 irregularly double row, terminating near penultimate row of multilocular pores, 

 at least as numerous as marginal 8-shaped pores of nearer row ; 1 or 2 disk 

 pores sometimes near 1 or both ends of penultimate row of multilocular pores 

 and next anterior row ; submarginal setae in a complete row terminating nearly 

 anterior to the posterior pair of marginal 8-shaped pores ; 2 pairs of setae in 

 posterior row of multilocular pores and 1 pair in each of next 2 rows. 



Apex of abdomen : Notch present ; lobes indicated ; setae, apical 72 n long, 

 interapical 18 n long, dorsal 9 //. long, inner ventral 8 /x long, intermediate ventral 

 8 n long, outer ventral 8 /x long ; anal ring with 6 setae, each 32 n long, also 

 with an inner row of 6 and an outer row of 14 or 15 pores, and divided on dorsal 

 side and tending toward division on ventral ; ventral surface of apex slightly 

 sclerotized and rugose, but with a more heavily sclerotized, roughly linear area 

 extending anteriorly from base of each interapical seta. 



Larva. — Nearly elliptical. 



Margin : With 28 8-shaped pores, the posterior 6 pairs of pores slightly smaller 

 than the next 7 and the anterior pair slightly the largest of all, axes of the 

 posterior 6 pairs transverse, of the others longitudinal ; a pair of minute setae 

 close to each of the posterior 3 pairs of pores ; 3 pairs of setae anteriorly. 



Dorsal surface : 8-shaped pores, totaling 43 or 44, in a submedian row of 9 

 or 10, a lateral of 9, and a submarginal of 3, on each half of body, anterior 

 submedian and lateral pores slightly larger than posterior pores but all nearly 

 uniform in size and slightly smaller than marginal pores of same segments ; 

 disk pores between submedian and lateral and a few between lateral and 

 marginal 8-shaped pores. 



Ventral surface: Antennal setae, I, 2; IV, 1: V, 1; VI, 2 long, 2 stout, 3 

 fairly stout, 2 slender ; antennal bases about one-third length of antenna apart ; 

 beak setae, 2 pairs apical, 1 pair basal ; spiracle with 1 trilocular and 1 quadri- 

 locular or quinquelocular pore : leg setae, coxa 4, femur 1 on inner margin at 

 base and 1 each on inner and outer margins near center, tarsus 2 on inner and 



1 on outer margin; tibia around one-third as long as tarsus; 9 pairs of sub- 

 marginal 8-shaped pores ; apparently 10 pairs of submarginal minute setae, 

 on abdomen and thorax, and 3 pairs of submarginal larger setae anteriorly ; 



2 pairs of setae between antennae and mouth parts. 



Apex of abdomen ; Notch present ; setae, apical 54 /x long, interapical 9 p 

 long, dorsal 2 ^ long, inner ventral 3.6-5.4 fx long, intermediate ventral 3.6 fi long, 

 outer ventral 3.6 /j. long; anal ring with 6 setae 20-22 /j. long, also with an inner 

 row of 6 and an outer row of 12 pores ; divided on dorsal side and tending 

 toward division on ventral. 



Data. — Described from unmounted material, 7 mounted females, 

 and 42 mounted larvae on Brachylena discolor, Durban, Cape Province, 

 South Africa, 1916, Brain No. 28, paratypes, part of material from 

 H. K. Munro. 



Closely related to thespesiae, but differing from it in possessing a 

 few more marginal quinquelocular pores, in having the outer dorsal 

 8-shaped pores arranged in circular rather than transverse rows, and 

 in having a conspicuously smaller number of multilocular pores. 



Asterolecanium brevispinum Brain 



(Fig. 10, F-P; fig. 11, A) 



Described in 1920 (12, p. 109) . 



Hatit. — Apparently living on twigs (12, pi. VII, fig. 188). 



Test of female. — "Test of adult ° about 3 mm. long, 2.2 mm. broad, very 

 convex, with the caudal extremity produced into a narrow upturned process. 

 The colour is bright yellow and somewhat transparent, except at the anterior end 

 which is bright brown in the few specimens at hand, probably owing to the 



