The Coccidae of South Africa. 
165 
One of the largest insects collected in Pretoria measured when alive 
7'2 mm. long, 3'5 mm. broad, and 3*5 mm. high. When cleared and 
mounted the antennae measured : — 
Segments 1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 
10 
11 
E. 142 
146 
122 
68 
68 
74 
85 
85 
74 
64 
136 
L. 136 
142 
129 
74 
74 
78 
81 
91 
78 
74 
146 
In this specimen the femur + trochanter varied from 958 to 1,000 /j ; 
the tibia v^as 816 fi, and the tarsus v^ithout clav^ was I. 492 ju, II. 540 fi, 
III. 585 
A small form from Pretoria measured : Antennae : — 
B. 85 85 92 58 68 68 68 68 68 68 153 
L. 102 91 102 58 68 71 68 68 68 68 153 
Legs :— Femur + trochanter 770 ^ ; tibia I. 616 ^, II. 650 ^, III. 695 ^ ; 
tarsus without claw I. 338 /x, II. 368 III. 385 ^. 
One of the Queenstown specimens which is about 6 mm. long 
measures : Antennae : — 
B. 98 100 100 58 68 68 68 68 85 80 136 
L. 120 85 100 58 68 68 68 68 76 74 140 
Eemur + trochanter I. 800 ^, II. 800 ^, III. 846 ^ ; tibia 620 to 675^ and 
tarsus without claw 340 to 380 /x. The trochanter in all cases appears bo 
be two-segmented (Fig. 49*). 
Habitat: On grass (sp. indet.) Natal (Coll. Fuller), Queenstown 
Municipal Gardens, CP. (Coll. T. F. Dreyer), and on Cynodon sp. 
Pretoria, Transvaal, collected by the writer. 
Collection No. : 4. 
48. MONOPHLEBUS HIRTUS, Sp. n. 
(Plate XXVI., Fig. 59.) 
A slide in the collection at Pretoria has on it two specimens of 
$ Monophlebus sent to the office in April, 1913. 
The records show that these were sent in by C. C. Eobertson, of the 
Division of Forestry, who wrote as follows : — 
KOLOGHA, StUTTERHEIM, CP. 
April 23, 1913. 
I am sending you by post to-day a box containing some insects found yesterday at 
Kubusie Plantation adhering to the bark of shoots of trees of Pinus canariensis, about 6 ft- 
high. They were seen only on shoots the tips of which were dead, and not on the 
surrounding healthy shoots. 
