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Male nymph. — Antenna 10-segmonted ; distinguishing characters similar to 

 those of adult male. 



Third-stage male. — Elongate, slender, posterior end slightly narrowed; margin 

 with 8-shaped pores terminating about two-thirds length of apical seta from 

 bases of setae, 3 or 4 quinqueloeular pores opposite each spiracle; dorsal surface 

 with a median row of 9 or 10 and a submarginal row of 6 or 8 8-shaped pores, 

 anterior pore in each row and posterior pore of submarginal row at ieasl ;i> 

 large as the others and larger than a posterior marginal pore; ventral surface 

 without pores between spiracle and body margin, or with the 3 or 4 pores usually 

 situated along margin placed between opening and margin but rather close to 

 margin, legs represented by 3 pairs of circular, slightly sclerotized areas, each 

 sometimes with a sharp, stout, straight claw and minute clear areas ; apex of 

 abdomen with setae as in adult female ; anal ring with 6 setae 21.6 /* long, with 

 an inner row of 6 and an outer one of at least 10 pores, and tending toward 

 division on dorsal side. 



Data. — Redescribed from unmounted material and mounted speci- 

 mens consisting of two females, five larvae, one adult male, a fragment 

 of a male nymph, and three third-stage males on bamboo, Yatiyantota, 

 Ceylon, E. E. Green, March 1902, types. 



This species is most closely related to udagamae, but is different in 

 shape, has smaller marginal 8-shaped pores, which terminate farther 

 from the bases of the apical setae, and has about 22 dorsal 8-shaped 

 pores. It is one of the few known species in which there are no pores 

 in the anal ring of adult females and larvae but in which there are 

 approximately 16 in the third-stage male. 



ASTEROLECANIUM FIMBRIATUM (FoilSCOlOmbe) 



(Fig. 24, E-Nj pi. 2, D ) 



Described as Coccus ftmbriatus in 1834 (34, p. 209), on Coronilla 

 glauca. Although the collection locality was not given, it may have 

 been Marseilles, France, because Fonscolombe stated that it ay as 

 given to him by Casimir Rostan, then permanent secretary of the 

 Academy of Marseilles. Also discussed briefly by Signoret in 1868 

 (86, p. 615) . Material at hand probably represents as authentic ma- 

 terial of the species as exists. 



Habit. — Living on twigs and stems, in flattened areas or in shallow pits, 

 margin of test not sunken in pit. 



Test of female. — Nearly circular or broadly pyriform, posterior end slightly 

 upturned; 2.5-3 mm. long, 2-2.5 wide; convex dorsally, sometimes rather strongly 

 so, nearly flat or slightly convex ventrally ; brownish or pale yellow, translucent. 

 rather thick, punctate, shiny; marginal filaments whitish, fragmentary; elongate 

 elliptical larval exit in margin. 



Adult female. — Shape similar to that of test, approximately 2.5 mm. in diameter. 

 or 2.5-2.9 mm. long, 2-2.5 wide. 



Margin: 8-shaped pores in a double row (usually single at 1 or 2 points) 

 terminating length of a posterior pore from bases of apical setae, 10-17 fi long 

 and 8-9 wide, distances between pores of same row the width to twice the 

 length (usually about the length) of a pore, the two rows less than a pore's 

 width apart; quinqueloeular pores in a single row, starting about 8 8-shaped pores 

 anterior to anterior spiracular pore bands and ending slightly nearer to apical 

 setae than to the posterior spiracular pore bands, the row sometimes interrupted 

 between the pore bands; pores usually about as numerous as 8-shaped pores of 

 nearer row near ends of row, and about twice as numerous as those pores near 

 spiracular pore bands ; disk pores along dorsal row of 8-shaped pores, terminating 

 between apical setae and anal opening, nearly half as numerous as 8-shaped pores 

 of dorsal row, also occurring ventrad of quinqueloeular pores, and terminating 

 near the posterior pair of submarginal setae, these pores about one-half as 

 numerous as those dorsad of 8-shaped pores. 



