SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES ON COCCIDM OF CEYLON. lOJl 
Fig. 7 — Pseudoparlatoria pusilla. Pygidium of adult 5? X 450 
On Theobroma cacao. Peradeniya. The scales are extremely inconspi- 
cuous and are distributed, singly, at wide intervals, on the undersurface 
of the foliage. 
Diaspis antiquorum, n. sp. (Fig. 8.) 
Puparium of female sub-circular, moderately convex ; white, opaque ; 
exuviae eccentric, larval pellicle bright castaneous, nymphal pellicle con- 
cealed. Diameter 2'5 mm. 
Adult female broadly ovate, narrower behind. Pygidium with median 
lobes recessed, divergent, their bases confluent, their free margins very 
obscurely serrate ; two pairs of duplex lateral lobes, the lobules of the first 
pair narrowly dolabriform, those of the second pair broadly so, the inner 
lobule of each pair with a short inward extension defined by slender 
but densely chitinous paraphyses. Circumgenital pores in five large groups 
with numerous pores. Length D25 mm. 
On the fleshy branches of Euphorbia antiquorum. Elephant Pass. Asso- 
ciated with Parlatoria manyiferce. 
