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Ou the undersurface of leaves of undetermined trees ; Maha Illuppalama 
and Galgammuwa. Also on Sapindus sp., Sigiriya. Received also from 
India, on Hemigyrosa sp. 
Diaspis phoenicis, n. sp. 
Puparium of female broadly 
and irregularly ovate or sub- 
circular ; ilattish ; white, thin 
and semi-translucent ; exuvim 
stramineous or very pale fulvous, 
eccentric, the larval pellicle 
often extra-marginal. Longer 
diameter 2 mm. 
Male puparium white ; 
strongly tri-carinate. Length 
1 mm. 
Adult female (a) oblong, 
sharply contracted behind the 
cephalo-thorax, lateral margins 
of last free abdominal segment 
strongly produced. Upper 
spiracles each with a group of 
parastigmatic pores ; lower 
spiracles with two or three 
pores only. Margin of pygi- 
diuni (6) with the mesal lobes 
small, recessed, slightly diver- 
gent, their apices evenly 
rounded ; two pairs of duplex 
lateral lobes, both of approxi- 
mately the same size and form, 
the two lobules of each pair 
rather widely separate. Spiniform squames small and inconspicuous. 
Circumgenital pores in five groups ; the mesal group with 8 pores, upper 
laterals averaging 15, lower laterals averaging 13. Dorsal pores few ; a 
single pore adjacent to the circumgenital groups, and three curved series 
(of five or six pores only) on each side of the pygidium. Length slightly 
less than 1 mm. 
On the upper surface of foliage of Phoenix zeylanica ; Maha llluppa- 
laina. Nearly allied to cinnamomi of Newstead. 
Diaspis mihiriya, n. sp. (Fig. 13.) 
(Fig. 12.) 
Fig. 12 — Diaspis phcenicis. 
(a) Adult $, X 50. (b) Pygidium, 
X 450. 
Fig. 13 — Diaspis mihiriya. Margin of pygidium, X 450. 
