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Data. — Kedescribed from the following material: Three mounted 

 females and 8 mounted larvae, Australia, Maskell Collection No. 218, 

 holotype and paratypes (source unknown, possibly Tasmania, 73, p. 

 8) ; unmounted material, 1 mounted females, and 12 mounted larvae, 

 Maskell Collection No. 44, Cockerell Collection; unmounted mate- 

 rial and 2 mounted females from Banksia sp., Mittagong, New South 

 Wales, W. W. Froggatt, January 10. 1901, Froggatt No. 52 ; unmounted 

 material, 3 mounted females, and 5 mounted larvae from Banksia 

 infegrifolia, Somerville, Victoria, Australia, from W. W. Froggatt, 

 1910, Froggatt No. 1. 



Asterolecanknn transversum is rather similar to stypheliae and 

 hakeae but has an additional pair of ventral setae at the apex of the 

 abdomen, and also differs from them in other characters. There are 

 three pairs of ventral setae on the apex of the abdomen instead of 

 two as was stated in the original description (73, p. 8) . 



ASTEROLECANIUM BONDARI Lepage 12 



(Fig. 73, C-P; pi. 9, T) 



Habit. — Living- on both surfaces of leaves. 



Test of female. — Elongate, widest on anterior third, tapering gradually to 

 posterior end, anterior end usually truncate ; 1.25-1.50 mm. long, 0.5-0.75 wide ; 

 sharply convex dorsally, flat ventrally : greenish or dull yellow, transparent, thin, 

 punctate; marginal filaments; light brownish or pale salmon; circular larval exit 

 in margin. 



Adult female. — In shape similnr to test, 1.10-1.4 mm. long, 0.5-0.7 wide. 



Margin : 8-shaped pores in a single row terminating two to three times the 

 length of an apical seta from bases of setae, posterior pores 8 n long and 4 wide, 

 the others 9 /j. long and 5 wide ; usually about a pore's width apart ; trilocular 

 pores in a single row terminating at a point opposite one of the last 9 8-shaped 

 pores, about one and one-half times as numerous as 8-shaped pores. 



Dorsal surface ; Minute 8-shaped pores in median area, sparse ; disk pores 

 sparse; tubular ducts 28 n long. 



Ventral surface : Antenna thimble-shaped, with 2 setae longer and 1 or 2 

 shorter than diameter of antenna ; beak with 2 pairs of setae ; spiracle with bar 

 slender, atrium slightly enlarged, but not containing pores ; 9-12 quinquelocular 

 pores extending from spiracle to body margin in a single row ; multilocular pores, 

 with 9 or 10 loculi, in 2 complete rows and 1 interrupted row of 3-5 pores each ; 

 a group of 8-13 dark-rimmed 8-shaped pores each side of mouth parts and 2 or 3 

 posterior to beak ; submarginal 8-shaped pores in a single row terminating near 

 posterior row of multilocular pores, about half as numerous as corresponding 

 marginal 8-shaped pores ; submarginal setae in a complete row terminating 

 around one-half length of an apical seta from bases of apical setae ; 1 pair of 

 setae each in posterior row and in median row of multilocular pores. 



Apex of abdomen : Lobes indicated ; setae, apical 40-45 /x long, interapical 

 10-12 ix long, outer ventral 4 fx long; anal opening in margin, inconspicuous; 

 anal tube membranous, inconspicuous ; anal ring consisting of 2 sclerotized, 

 elliptical plates with an end of one contiguous to an end of the other, each plate 

 with a seta 20 ,u long at each end and a roughly rectangular clear area in center ; 

 a circular opening ventrad of. and in the angle formed by. the junction of the 

 2 plates. 



Larva. — Elongate elliptical. 



Margin: With 28 8-shaped pores, the posterior pair and the anterior 2 pairs 

 larger than the rest, axes of all practically longitudinal; a pair of minute 

 setae close to each of the posterior 3 pairs ; 3 pairs of setae at anterior end. 



Dorsal surface: 8-shaped pores in a submedian row of 10 and a lateral row 

 of 5, on each half of body, submedian pores about as large as marginal pores 

 of same segments, anterior lateral pore slightly smaller than submedian pores 

 and much larger than the other lateral pores; disk pores in submarginal area. 



"This species was described by H. S. Lepage (Papers Avulsos do Departaniento de 

 Zoologia, Seeretaria da Agricultura, Sao Paulo, Brazil, v. 1, pp. 69-72. illus. 1940) while 

 Ihis publication was in press. Part of the material studied by the present writer bears 

 the same collection data as the type specimens. 



