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Head: Antenna 10-seginented ; formula (longest to shortest), (X), (IV), (V, 



VI, IX), (III, VII, VIII), (I), (II) ; antennal setae, I, 2-4; II, 14; III, 10; IV- 



VII, 18-22; VIII, 16; IX, 23; X, 19 and also 3 very long and 2 rather stout; 

 basal bars transverse ; 23 setae anterior to ventral eyespots. 



Thorax : Bar between wing bases rectangular, three times as long as wide, an 

 oblong area in center less heavily sclerotized than the rest; tibia three-fifths 

 length of tarsus. 



Abdomen : Five segments each with a pair of setae dorsally on lateral margins ; 

 apparently 2 segments each with a pair of setae in ventral lateral area ; each lobe 

 area with 1 long and 2 short setae; penis sheath with 2 or 3 short setae dorsally 

 near base and apparently with 5 setae on each side of ventral opening. 



Male nymph. — Distinguishing characters similar to "those of adult male. 



Third-stage male. — Resembling adult female, but not so strongly narrowed 

 at posterior end, nearly elliptical, smaller than mature female ; margin with 

 8-shaped pores terminating about one-half length of an apical seta from bases of 

 setae ; quinquelocular pores in a complete row terminating closer to apical setae 

 than to marginal 8-shaped pores ; dorsal surface with 1 8-shaped pore on median 

 line near posterior end and 5 larger pores in submarginal area at anterior end, the^e 

 pores larger than posterior marginal pores ; ventral surface with 2 or 3 quinque- 

 locular pores near each spiracle, legs represented by 3 pairs of circular, sclerotized, 

 slightly raised areas, each with or without a small, straight claw ; apex of abdo- 

 men as in adult female, but interapical and ventral setae about one-sixth shorter. 



Da* a. — Redescribed from the following material: One mounted fe- 

 male. 2 mounted larvae on Bambusa sp., Chun Wong Mt, Ts'ing Uen 

 district, Kwangtung, China, F. A. McClure, April 21. 1925: specimens 

 (10 females. 5 second-stage specimens, 11 larvae, 3 adult males, 1 male 

 nymph, and 1 third-stage male, mounted) on Bambusa sp., Taihoku, 

 Taiwan (Formosa). E. Takahashi, April 20, 1929 (part of original 

 collection from which the species was described). 



Closely resembling solenophoroides, but differing from it conspicu- 

 ously in shape, and in having a well defined marginal row of quin- 

 quelocular pores ; also related to penicillatum. 



Although Takahashi stated that there were no dorsal 8-shaped 

 pores in this species, one or two have been noted in several of the 

 specimens examined. 



Asterolecanium pseudomiliaris Green 



(Fig. 54, H-S; pi. 7, R) 



Described in 1922 (46, pp. 1036-1037) from specimens on Bambusa 

 sp. collected at Peradeniya, Ceylon. 



The dorsal 8-shaped pores of this species vary much more than was 

 indicated in the original description, and on this account it is nec- 

 essary to synonymize charmoyi with pseudomiliaris. Green described 

 ckarmoyi in 1924 (48, pp. 45-46) on Bambusa sp. from Mauritius. 

 The dorsal 8-shapecl pores, said by Green to be less numerous and 

 smaller in charmoyi than in pseudomiliaris, vary greatly in number 

 and slightly in size, and do not furnish a basis for separating the two 

 forms. Moreover, the marginal 8-shaped pores, which were stated to 

 be closer together in charmoyi than in pseudomiliaris, are practically • 

 the same distance apart in all specimens. 



With the synonymizing of charmoyi, pseudomiliaris bambusifoliae 

 also becomes a synonym of pseudomiliaris. Takahashi described this 

 variety in 1930 (93, p. 11) on Bambusa sp. from Nisui, Taiwan (For- 

 mosa), and in 1933 (94, p. 35) indicated that it was a synonym of 

 charmoyi. Specimens bearing the collection data of the type speci- 

 mens of this variety, and studied by the writer, are the same^as ' 

 specimens described as charmoyi and pseudomiliaris. 





