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A predaceous insect enemy of Monophlebus Stebbingi. 
COCCINELLA SP, 
THE SAL TREE WHITE SCALE LADyY-BIRD BEETLE. 
Plate XIX fig. §,.2,.0,¢5 a. 
Reference :— Provisionally named Coccinella sp., new to the Indian Museum. 
Classification: —Order, COLEOPTERA. Family, Coccinellide. 
Predaceous upon Afonophlebus Stebbingt, Green. 
Description. 
Larva.—When young the larva is black in colour with 3 
pairs of stout legs on its thoracic segments. During its first 
two moults it appears to retain this colour and is longish and 
narrow with a well-developed head and mouth parts. As it gets 
older it becomes more oval and is then white and black or 
reddish with white markings or a greyish purple in colour. 
It will often be found to be covered with a certain amount of 
the white powdery substance which covers the. scale insect 
Monophlebus stebbingt upon which it feeds. The young larva 
has a number of tubercles on its dorsal surface. When full- 
grown the larva is 3 inch long and has a well-developed head 
which is narrower than the first ten segments of the body which 
follow. Of these latter the middle ones are the broadest the 
grub tapering to each end. On each of these ten segments 
there are four dorsal tubercles, two on each side, so that the 
larva has four rows of tubercles down its dorsal surface. The last 
two segments make up the dark reddish-black coloured pad-like 
apparatus which terminates the body, the end of which forms a 
kind of sucker, which is very adhesive and enables the larva to 
cling to the smoothest bark by means of it. It uses it during 
feeding and also for fixing itself to leaves, twigs, or rough bark 
before changing to the pupal stage. The arrangement of its 
segments make its body extremely pliable, and it can roll itself 
up almost into a ball. In addition to the four rows of tubercles 
the segments are fringed on either side by projecting teeth 
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