1012 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXVIII. 
Diaspis bambusae. n. sp. (Fig. 9.) 
Pnparium of female circular, modera- 
tely convex ; white, opaque ; exuviae 
eccentric, reddish brown. Diameter 
2‘o mm. 
Adult female (a) yellowish, tinged 
with dull purple ; elongate, sharply 
contracted behind the cephalo-thoracic 
area, then widening again to the segment 
immediately preceding the pygidium ; 
lateral margins of abdominal segments 
strongly protuberant. Cephalo-thorax 
rather densely chitinized. Anterior and 
posterior spiracles each with a crowded 
group of parastigmatic pores. Margin 
of pygidium {h) with the median lobes 
recessed, divergent, not serrated ; two 
pairs of small, duplex, lateral lobes. 
Spiniform squames numerous and cons- 
picuous on the base of pygidium and on 
lateral margins of the two previous 
.segments. Circumgenital pores in five 
densely crowded groups which are 
almost confluent. Dorsal pores in four 
linear series, on each side ; the inner- 
most series containing o or 6 pores only, 
the outermost series partly double. 
Length 1-25 to I'o mm. 
On small stems and branches of 
Bambusa sp.; usually disposed immedia- 
tely behind a node. Yatiyantota. Vm. 9— Diaspis bambusce. (a) adult 
$, X oO. (6) Extreiuity 
of pygidium, X 450. 
Diaspis heneratgoda, n. sp. (Fig. 10.) 
Fig. 10 — Diaspis heneratgoda. Pygidium of adult 5, X 450. 
Puparium of female white, sometimes slightly tinged with ochreous ; 
broadly ovate or sub-circular, flattish or moderately convex ; exuviae 
reddish brown, eccentric, close to the margin of the scale, the larval pellicle 
occasionally projecting beyond the margin. Longer diameter 2'5 mm. 
Puparium of male white ; weakly tricarinate ; accompanied by some 
loose, white, woolly matter. Length 1 mm. 
Adult female turbinate in outline, the abdominal segments tapering 
evenly to the extremity of the pygidium. Parastigmatic pores at ante- 
