JOURNAL 



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ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 



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 Part II.— NATURAL SCIENCE. 



No. I.— 1889. 



I. — A new Species and Oenus of Coccidoe. — By E. T. Atkinson, B. A. 

 [Reooived September 30th ;— Read November 7th, 1888.] 

 (With Plate I.) 



The Coccid described below was received from Mr. F. Gaiamie, who 

 procured it at Munghjahu (3800 feet) in Siklrim on Qiiercus incana, 

 Gastanea indica, anA 0. trihuloides. I forwarded speeiiaens to Mr. W. H. 

 Maskell of Wellington, New Zealand, who devotes much attention to 

 this family, and lie has kindly sent me the drawings of the insect in its 

 different stages shown on the accompanying plate. This coccid clearly 

 belongs to Maskell's group Uemicoccma, which is characterised by 

 having, in the larval stage, the anal tubercles of the Goccina, and, in the 

 adult female, tlie abdominal cleft and lobes of the Lecanina. I had 

 provisionally placed this insect in the genus Puhinaria of the group 

 Lecanina, as the adult female does not appear to differ from the adult 

 females of that genus. Mr. Maskell was at first of the same opinion, 

 but, having examined the larval form in its earliest stages, he found 

 that it presented undoubted and distinct 'anal tubercles' (Fig. II), 

 which at once remove it from the Lecanina . 



It cannot be placed in the genus Kermes of the group Hemicoccina 

 owing to structui'al differences, so that we have to form a now genus, to 

 which the name Fseudopidvinaria, as suggested by Mr. Maskell, has 

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