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curious species ; perhaps Mr. Green will propose a subgeneric (or generic) name 
for it. 
A. (n. snbg.) moorai Green — $ scale 2$ mm. diam., rugose and colored like the bark 
on which' -it rests; exuviae reddish-brown. 9 reddish-brown, skin entirely 
chitinous, body divided by deep constrictions into three subequal parts, three 
pairs of lobes, plates apparently absent, no grouped ventral glands; long chi- 
tinous processes arising from the first interlobular interval, but none in the 
second or beyond. On bark of Grislea tomentosa. Madras. (Hut. Mo. Mag., 
1896, p. 199.) 
A. (Cryptophyllaspis) occultus Green. — 9 pale yellow; no groups of ventral glands. 
In minute gulls on leaves on (Ircu-'m oHentalis. Ceylon. The reader should 
refer to Green's "Coccidae of Ceylon." p. 41, and PI. XI. for an account of this 
very remarkable insect. 
A. (subg.f) orientalis Newst. — 9 scale about 1\ mm. diam., brownish-yellow or straw 
color; exuviae covered by a nipple-like prominence which is darker than the 
rest. 9 with three pairs of lobes, plates simple and hair-like;, four groups of 
ventral glands of about ."> each. Madras. (Ind. Mns. notes, iii, 6.) 
A. {Diaspidiotus) o.bocki-e Green. — '"Allied to nerii," hut scale opaque, brownish, and 
marginal fringe of 9 different. <>n steins of Osbcckla. Ceylon. The excel- 
lent figures in Green's work show that this species really belongs with Diaspi- 
diotus, and therefore is only superficially like nerii. The median lobes arc 
fairly wide apart, and the second lobes well trilobed; there are four groups of 
ventral glands, and a single orifice representing the fifth group. 
A. {Aspidiotus 8. str.) putearins Green. — 9 scale round. Hat, or slightly concave "form- 
ing an operculum to the pit-like depression in which the insect rests;" color 
very pale brownish ochreous, semiopaque; exuviae central, pale yellow. 9 
without grouped ventral glands. On Slrobilanthes. Ceylon. This insect is of 
interest as showing the fust stage toward gall formation, the advanced or 
completed stage of the same process being exhibited in the extraordinary ./. 
occultus. The Australian A. fodiens, belonging to a different group, forms pits 
in the leaves of Acacia,\)ni no gall- inhabiting Aspidiotus is yet known from 
Australia. 
A. ( Pseudaonidia ) theie Mask. — 2 scales clustered thickly on twigs, as nearly circular 
as their numbers and position will permit, slightly convex, light brown, with 
a very thin coat of white secretion; exuvisB yellow, very small, near the mar- 
gin. 9 brown; four lobes, the second pair smaller; 1 large groups of ventral 
glands. On tea plant. India. The insect has a patch of "lattice work" on 
doisal surface of 9 , after the manner of Ischnaspis. This is not A. then Green, 
"Insect posts" (1890), p. 13, which consists of female Howardia biclavis, with 
the J of some other species, apparently a Chionaspis. 
A. {Aspidiotus s. str.) transparens Green.— There are four groups of ventral glands, 
cephalolaterals 6 to 11, caudolaterals 1 to 6. Ceylon, on tea, etc., now referred 
by Green to latonice, but very likely distinct. 
A. {Pseudaonidia) trilob'tiformis Green. — 9 scale broad and flat, opaque, reddish- 
brown. 9 with the segments strongly marked, a deep transverse groove 
behind the cephalic portion; hind portion with a well-marked reticulated 
patch. On leaves of Da I bergia. Ceylon. Mr. Green says of this: "Very closely 
allied to (possibly only a variety of) A. them Maskell." I do not think the 
affinity is so very close, though they have some striking features in common. 
I think duplex is closer to thecB. 
Ethiopian. 
A. (subfj.?) macda'usXewst.— 9 scale pure white, rather thick; exuvise black, forming 
a large, conspicuous, central spot. 9 with two pairs of lobes, median minute, 
rounded, second pair greatly elongated, plates well developed, no groups of 
ventral glands. Lagos. (Ent. Mo. Mag., 189G, p. 133.) 
