SUPPLEMEXTARY NOTES ON COCCID^ OF CEILON. 1019 
Chionaspis tenera, n sp. (Fig. 18. 
Pnparium of female 
white ; very thin and 
delicate ; elongate, nar- 
row, gradually widen- 
ing to the middle and 
then more abrnptly 
narrowing to the post- 
erior extremity ; with a 
median longitudinal 
channel due to the fact 
that the scale lies in 
the sunken median vein 
of the leaf. Larval 
pellicle pale strami- 
neous ; nymphal pellicle 
colourless, concealed. 
Length 2‘25. Greatest breadth approximately 1 mm. 
Male pupariuin without, or with very obscure carinse. 
Adult female pale jellow ; elongate, narrow. Pygidium with the mesa 
lobes narrow, recessed, widely divergent, their bases confluent, their free 
margins minutely serrate. A single pair of prominent, duplex, lateral 
lobes, the base of the inner lobule extended inwards. Spiniform squames 
few, small and inconspicuous ; none on the base of the pygidium, or mar- 
gins of abdominal segments. Circumgenital pores in five small groups ; 
median group with 3 or 4 pores, upper laterals with 7 to 12, lower laterals 
with 10 to 1.5. Oval dorsal pores few, but large and conspicuous, in short 
series of 2 or -3 pores only. Length 1 to L5 mm. 
Disposed along the sunken mid rib, on the upper surface of foliage of an 
undetermined shrub ; Maha Illuppalama. 
Parlatoria cingala var. namunakuli, n. var. (Fig. 19.) 
r. 
V n 
n 
Fig. 18. — Chionaspis tenera. Margin of 
pygidium, X 450. 
Fig. 19. — Parlatoria cingala namunakuli, Pygidium of adult 9> X 450. 
Difi'ering from the type in the structure of the outermost lobe on each 
side of the pygidium of the adult female. In typical cingala this lobe is 
arge and broadly rounded. In var. namunakuli it is small and lanceolate. 
On leaves of an undetermined shrub : Namunakuli Hill, Badulla. 
