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3 MONOPHLEBUS sp. 
Classification :—Order, HEMIPTERA. Family, Coccide. 
Tree attacked :—Casuarina equisetifolia. 
The genus Monophlebus may be said to be the forest genus 
of Coccids, since all the species at present known confine their 
attacks to woody plants. Both at Waltair, at Chatrapur, and 
in the Botanical Gardens, Calcutta, a species of Monophlebus 
has been obtained on the Casuarina. Itfeeds by sucking out 
the sap of the green shoots, going down to the more woody 
branches as it grows older, It was quite small at the beginning 
of July, but had grown considerably by the third week in August. 
Only the female has as yet been secured, so it is impossible 
to say what the species is. The female is an oval white fleshy 
scale, convex above and flat beneath, with three pairs of short 
black legs and a pair of black antenna, The male will be a 
small two-winged black fly. It has not yet been taken, and it is 
therefore impossible to describe the species, 
G. 1. C. P. O.—No. 2565 For. Ento. —8-2-1906.—1,o0oo~R. H.S. 
