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FIORINIA THEA, 
GREEN. 
Reference t—Ind. Mus. Notes V. 1, 3-4. PI. J, 4-8. 
Classification :—Order, HEMIPTERA. Family, Coccide. 
Description. 
The pale yellow eggs are deposited in two rows within the 
fader patt of the female scale, the 2 insect shrinking up after 
oviposition and occupying the anterior extremity only. 
eet he adult Gis pale yellow and is blunt elliptical in 
shape. 
The antennz are close together, on the anterior margin; 
each antennz consists of an irregular tubercle with a single 
curved bristle on one side. From between the antenne 
‘springs a proboscis-like projection which is not chitinous 
but of the same consistency as the surrounding parts of the 
body. The margin of the thorax and abdomen has a series of 
minute spinneret ducts opening on to small conical tubercles, 
The scale of the female completely encloses the aduit insect 
and is without any secretionary margin, It is elongate and 
narrow in shape with a moderately distinct median ridge. 
Colour bright castaneous to dark ferruginous brown, the median 
longitudinal area darkest: opaque; not revealing the form of 
the insect beneath. Length 1°25 to 1°50 millim. Breadth o'50 
millim. The insects found by the writer when alive were 
covered with white filamentous hairy matter, the stems and 
leaves of the host plant appearing to be covered with a white 
fluffy wool, Neither the male scale nor the adult male have yet 
been discovered. 
Pl. VI, fig. 7, shows a, portion of a leaf with insects 7m situ 
b, scale of adult @ and c, ventral surface of adult @. 
Life History. 
The writer found this scale insect on the Olive (Olea 
glandulifera) at the end of June in the Bashahr State close 
to Kilba. in the Sutle} Valley. The @ insects were thickly 

