102 Transactions of the Boyal Society of South Africa. 
All segments with the normal number of hairs. 
Habitat : On grass at Tongaat (alt. 63 ft.) and also at Pietermaritzburg 
(alt. 2,200 ft.) Natal. Collected by Claude Fuller 1899 and 1900. 
Collection No. : 64. 
9. PsEUDOcoccus NiPAE (Maskell). 
Dactyloptus mpae Mask., N.Z. Trans., xxv., p. 230 (1892). 
Newst., Ent. Mon. Mag., xxix., p. 187 (1893). 
,, Mask., N.Z. Trans., xxvi., p. 88 (1893). 
„ The Entom., xxvii., p. 45 (1894). 
„ King, Can. Ent., xxxiv., p. 59 (1902). 
Adult ? covered with conical masses of buff-coloured wax ; hence 
commonly called *' Spiny mealy-bug " in South African nurseries. 
Size mounted about 1*5 mm. long and 1*2 mm. broad. 
Antennae 7-segmented with range of measurements as indicated in 
diagram : — 
M. 
1 
II. 
III. 
IV. 
V. 
VI. 
VII. 
VIII. 
IX. 
130 
120 
1 10 
100 
90 
80 
70 
60 
50 
40 
30 
20 
10 
P . n i pa e . _ 
The legs approximate : — 
I. 
35 
67 
136 
40 
70 
24 
61 
II. 
37 
67 
140 
44 
70 
24 
68 
III. 
36 
67 
152 
51 
75 
24 
68 
