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puparium is much more strongly convex. It apparently lacks supplement- 

 ary paired glands on the dorsum, but the examples that you send are not 

 in very good condition. In all other characters it agrees with typical 

 hambusœ." The writer should add here that the present species may 

 readily be distinguished from A. bambusœ Bdv. by the regular double 

 series of paired glands and by the presence of numerous simple glands. 



A.sterolecaniuni m<isuii. sp. nov. 

 (Plate IV, figs. 8 and 9) 



Test of adult female : — Long and narrow, broadest in front, flattish. 

 .Dorsum with a slight median carina. Color pale straw to fresh yellow, 

 with a dark brown patch in the anterior halt representing the body of the 

 insect. Fringe rather long, pale yellow in color. 



Length about 2^—3 mm., width about 1 mm. 



Adult female : — Oblong, slightly narrowed towards posterior end. 

 Rostrum prominent, pyriform. Abdominal cleft rather deep. The lobes 

 are not well-defined ; each lobe with a stout seta and one or two spines 

 near its base. Anal ring with six stout hairs which do not project beyond 

 the margin. Marginal 8-shaped glands conspicuous ; inner series of 

 simple glands rather few in number. 



Length of insect in the extended state about 1.3 mm., width 0.7 mm. 



Habitat : — On leaves of bamboo ; Tokyo and Nagasaki. Collected by 

 the writer and others, July 1912. Named after Mr. Yoshizo Masui, who 

 is now working on Japanese Coccidaî under the writer's direction. 



Note : — Prof. Green's remark on this species in a letter to me runs : 

 " I note that the puparium is flattish, oblong, about three times as long as 

 it is broad, with a slight median carina. Fringe comparatively long. The 

 marginal paired glands are conspicuous ; inner series of simple glands few. 

 A single paired gland, of large size, on the dorsum near anterior extremity, 

 is noticeable on one example only. The specimens have been much 

 injured by a parasitic fungus. None of these examples agree with 

 ■A. delicatum Green, nor are they at all nearly allied to A. miliaris Bdv." 



