i7 , 2 Morrison: Philippine Nondiaspine Coccidse 179 
Tachardia minuta sp. nov. Plate 1, fig. 4. 
Adult female . — Occurring on the leaves of the host, mostly on 
the underside along the midrib; test somewhat egg-shaped, 
broadest behind, but with a constriction on each side about the 
middle, strongly convex, broadly ribbed laterally, this more 
pronounced on the anterior portion, posterior dorsal opening 
oval, located just at the end of the larval exuvium, the anterior 
pair of openings diagonally slitlike, placed just before the exu- 
vium; maximum length, about 1.5 millimeters; color dark red- 
dish to almost black. 
Fig. 20. Tachardia fici Green, adult female ; a, antenna, X 335 ; 6, group of gland pores from 
near anal lobe, X 640 ; c and d, spiracles, X 165 ; e, stigmatic plate, X 165 ; f, dorsal spine, 
X 166. 
Body of female . — Shaped much as is the test; antennse small, 
fingerlike, apparently 2-segmented, terminating in a chitinized 
plate bearing two long, stout, and two tiny, spines ; total length, 
not including spines, about 53 /x, but variable; length of spines, 
about 12 n; small spiracles strongly constricted medially, the 
larger nearly straight, several times larger than the smaller pair ; 
spiracular processes apparently elongate, cylindrical, each ter- 
minating in a roughly circular chitinized plate bearing a large 
oval ring inclosing spines and pores, spines averaging nine to 
eleven in number, pores, two to six ; the lobe bearing dorsal spine 
shorter than spine, stout, tapering somewhat, the spine about 80 
to 90 ju long by 53 ^ wide at base, basal third tapering strongly, 
the remainder very gradually, tip rounded, slender apical portion 
straight or slightly curved; anal lobe somewhat chitinized, the 
apical cap more than the rest, conical-rounded in shape with 
anal ring set in deeply at apex and surrounded by lobes and 
spines, the arrangement of the latter difficult to determine with 
certainty, but apparently posteriorly with two large lobes with 
a deep notch between them and with their apices more or 
less irregular or incised, laterally with two or three protuber- 
