i7 , 2 Morrison: Philippine Nondiaspine Coccidse 187 
Genus VINSONIA Signoret 
The single species included in this genus is represented by one 
lot of material from the Philippines. 
Vinsonia stellifera (Westw.). Plate 1, fig. 10. 
Coccus stellifera Westwood, Proc. Ent. Soc. London (1871) 3, 111. 
The external appearance and other characters of this species, 
as given in the key, are such that it can hardly be confused with 
any other coccid now known to occur in the Philippines. 
The material examined was collected at Manila on mango 
(Compere). Green 9 gives an excellent account and figures of 
this species. 
Fig. 27. Vinsonia stellifera (Westw.), adult female; a, outline of body, showing pointed 
secretionary projections, X 12 ; b, anterior portion of body, showing suture separating off 
the “head” and the antennae, X 57.5. 
Genus CEROPLASTES Gray 
The thick waxy covering of the species of this genus makes 
their recognition an easy matter. Only a single species has 
been known from the Philippines heretofore, but through the 
collections received it is possible to add two others, while in all 
probability it will be possible to make still further additions 
when more specimens of certain collected lots of material are 
available for study. 
Key to the Philippine species of Ceroplastes. 
a 1 . Size very large, length, about 17.5 millimeters; wax white, with a deep 
dorsal median pit C. gigas Ckll. 10 
a\ Size smaller, usually not more than 12 millimeters; without a dorsal 
median pit. 
9 Coceidae of Ceylon pt. 4 (1909) 280. 
10 Included in the key from the original description only; no specimens 
examined. 
