On some Coccidte in the British Museum. 373 
smallest, the third and fourth about equal^ the fifth as 
long as the last two together. The hairs below the head are 
blackish. Thorax reddish brown, with indistinct grey to- 
mentum and two yellowish stripes ; the scutelluni yellowish 
red ; the breast reddish, Avith brown tomentum and black 
pubescence. Abdomen black, long and pointed ; the second 
segment widest, the first and third with yellow, the second and 
fourth with grey hind borders, the remaining segments black 
with some red on the sides; underside black. Legs reddish 
brown with black pubescence, the fore femora stout. Wings 
dark brown with clear base ; a clear band in the middle 
crossing the base of the discal cell and extending to the fifth 
posterior cell, another on the apex crossing the fork of the 
third longitudinal vein ; there is also a clear space in the 
anal cell, and the axillary part of the wing is clear. 
Length 18 mm. 
Through the kindness of Mr. Verrall this species is now 
placed in the British Museum Collection with the species 
for which the genus Gastroxides was formed. 
L. — On some Ooccidre in the Collection of the British 
Museum. By E. Ernest Green, "F.E.S. 
In the comprehensive ' Catalogue of the Coccidae of the 
World ^ by Mrs. M. E. Fernald is a list of some sixty species 
" without description or not recognizable. ■'' 
Of these, the following five names are cited from the 
Catalogue of the British Museum, Homoptera (1852), and 
credited to Walker, whose descriptions were too often 
inadequate for recognition : — 
1469. Coccus caudatus. 
1489. poterii. 
1492. sinensis. 
1502. hecanium australe. 
1503. capense. 
I have been given an opportunity of examining the types 
of these species contained in the British Museum collection, 
with the following result : — 
No. 1469. Coccus caudatus, Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., Horn, 
p. 1085. 
Represented in the National Collection by a single male, 
which is an unmistakable Monophlebid. The antennse have 
typical W'horls of hair on the nodes. There are no fleshy 
caudal processes. Walker speaks of abdominal bristles 
about five times the length of the body ; but any such ap- 
pendages have now disappeared. The existing characters 
suggest that the so-called bristles were probably in the form 
374 Mr. E. E. Green on some 
of tufts of glassy filaments, such as occur in tlie males of 
Icerya, Callipappus, &c. 
Walker''s published description is as follows : — 
^^ Mas. Gracilis, nigra, albo lanuginosa: antenncB jili- 
formes, corpore duplo longiores : abdominis setce longissimce : 
pedes setosi : alee cine rece." 
" Male. Black, slender^ with a thick white covering : 
feelers filiform, bristly, about twice the length of the body : 
bristles of the abdomen about five times the length of the 
body : legs bristly : wings gray. Length of the body 3 lines : 
of the wings 4 lines. Columbia. From Dr. Cuming's 
collection." 
No. 1489. Coccus p)oteri{, Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., Hom. 
p. 1082 ; Ray, Hist. Plant, i. p. 401 ; Kirby and Spence, 
Intr. Ent. i. p. 318 (4th ed.). 
Walker's species is not now and never was represented in 
the collection. So far as Walker is concerned, the appella- 
tion is a " nomen nudum.'" It would appear to have been 
invented by that author to provide a name for tlie insect 
alluded to {lac. cit.) by Kirby and Spence in the following 
sentence : — " A similar neglect has attended the Coccus 
found on the roots of Poterium sanguisorhi." Kirby himself 
seems to have referred to the following note by Ray (loc. 
cit.) : — 
" De Pimpinella sanguisorha. . . . Hujus radicis adnascitur 
quihusdam in locis granum ruhrum, quo utuntur tinctores ad 
colore.s carmesinum, unde sunt qui pro cocco habent, et Coccum 
radicum appellant." 
This reference suggests identity with Margarodes polonicus, 
Linn, (the Chermes rodicum purpureus of GeofFroy), a species 
said to produce a purple-red dye {v. Signoret, ' Essai sur las 
Cochenilles,' p. 417). 
No. 1492. Coccus sinensis, Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., Hom. 
p. 1085. 
This is represented in the collection by a series of adult 
females in fairly good preservation, a single mutilated male, 
and a mass of prepared wax labelled " Insect wax of China. '^ 
I have no hesitation in identifying this material with 
JEricerus pela (Chav.). 
Walker's diagnosis of Coccus sinensis, transcribed below, 
does not agree with the characters of the female in any 
particular, and has probably been drawn up from the male 
larva or nymph. It reads as follows : — 
'■^ Picea. Elliptica: dorsum lanugine alba dense vestitum : 
pedes ferruginei." 
Coccidye in the British Museum. 375 
" Pitchy, elliptical, thickly covered above with woolly 
matter: feelers submoniliform, slightly setaceous: the joints 
successively increasing in length : legs ferruginous^ hairy. 
Length of body 2 lines. China. Presented by G. T. Lay, 
Esq.^' 
No. 1502. Lecamum australe, Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., Horn, 
p. 1079. 
The type of this species has unfortunately been lost, and no 
clue remains as to its identity. Walker-'s diagnosis, here 
appended, is quite inadequate : — 
" Rufum, ellipticuin, transverse rugosum." 
" E,ed, elliptical, transversely rugose. Length of body 
1^ line. Van Diemen^s Land. Presented by the Rev. T. 
Ewing.'" 
No. 1503. Lecanium capense, Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., Horn, 
p. 1079. 
The following diagnosis {loc. cit.) gives little assistance in 
the identification of the species : — 
" Piceuniy transversum, conchiforme, transverse striatum." 
" Conchiform, pitchy, a little broader than long, with 
transverse stria, wliich are parallel to the broader side. 
Breadth 1 line. Algoa Bay. Above 200 specimens on bark. 
Presented by Dr. Pereira.'' 
Fortunately the Museum Collection contains ample material 
from which I have been able to determine the insect as an 
undescribed species of Aspidiotus and to append the annexed 
formal description. 
Aspidiotus (^Aonidiella) capensis (Walk.). 
Lecanium capense, Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., Horn. p. 1079 (1862). 
Female puparium subcircular or oval, moderately convex, 
very dense and somewhat rough and corrugated. Colour 
deep chocolate-brown, in some examples inclining to reddish. 
Pellicles reddish, situate close to anterior margin, the second 
often concealed. Ventral scale dense, whitish. Longer 
diameter 2 to 2*50 mm. 
Male puparium small, narrow, tapering slightly to poste- 
rior extremity. Colour and texture as in female ; posterior 
extremity slightly paler. Length 1'25 mm. ; breadth 0*50 mm. 
Adult ? . — Dried examples deep purple-brown. Broadly 
oval. A conspicuous submarginal series of long stout hairs 
on cephalothorax (fig. 1, p. 376). Rudimentary antennae with 
several stout curved bristles. A ventral series of from four to 
six stout blunt spines on each side, each spine arising from a 
376 
Mr. E. E. Green on some 
Fig:. 1. 
Fig. 2. 
Fio-. 3. 
Fig. 5. 
Fiff. 4. 
Aspidiottis capensis. 
Fig. 1. — Early adult 5, ventral view. 
Figs. 2, 3. — Ventral spines of adult $ . 
Fig. 4. — Pygidium of adult $ . 
Fig. 5. — Marginal squames. 
Coccidse in the British Museum, 377 
conspicuous circular plate (figs. 2, 3), those on thoracic area 
much smaller than the others. These spines are easily 
detachable and are often missing, especially in older examples, 
when the circular base remains and has the appearance of a 
large circular pore. Pygidium (tig, 4) normally with six 
stout, prominent, bluntly rounded lobes. In some examples 
the lobes are very irregularly developed, one or more being 
often missing. Margin beyond the lobes strongly incrassate 
and irregularly cristate. Paraphyses more or less obscured 
by and merged in the thickened margin. Squames broad, 
stout, truncate, almost as large as the lobes, not fimbriate, 
apparently tubular, with a deep cleft on one side of the tube 
{^g. 5). No circumgenital glands. Some minute circular 
pores scattered irregularly over the surface of the pygidium. 
Length 0*75 to 1"50 mm. 
On undetermined plant. Algoa Bay. Collected by 
Dr. Pereira. 
Allied to Aspidiotus cladii, Mask., which it resembles 
closely in colour and texture of puparium and in nature of 
pygidial squames, but from which it may be separated by the 
much shorter paraphyses and more conspicuous lobes of the 
pygidium. 
Lecanium [Paralecaniuni) expansum, var. metallicum, Green. 
Lecanium expansnni, Green, " Catalogue of Coccidae," lud. Mus. Notes, 
vol. iv. no. 1 (1896) ; Coccidae of Ceylon, part iii. p. 235 (1904). 
Lecanium expansn^n, var. metallicum, Green, " On some Javanese 
Coccidae," Ent. Month. Mag-., Sept. 1904, p. 205. 
The collection contains some beautiful examples of a 
Lecanium from Singapore that, in favourable lights, displays 
a wonderful iridescent golden film on the dorsum. Micro- 
scopic examination proves the insect to be identical with 
L. expansum, var. metallicum [loc. cit.), though these 
specimens are even more iridescent than the typical examples 
from Java. They were collected by Mr. H. N. Ridley, of 
the Singapore Botanic Gardens, on Mtjristica (nutmeg). 
I have also received on loan from Mr. E,. Newstead, of 
Chester, a single specimen of what is evidently the same 
species and variety, though I have been unable to examine 
it microscopically. Tliis specimen is labelled " On shrub in 
Jungle, Malay Peninsular, Butsib Berar, 2500 ft. Coll. 
Annandale, 28, VI II. 01.^' 
The dorsum in all the examples is distinctly marked with 
polygonal plates, as in the type. In those from Singapore 
the centre of each plate is bare of the golden film ; but 
in the single example from the Malay Peninsula only the 
marginal series of plates shows this character, the discal plates 
Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 7. Vol. xiv. 26 
378 Mr. K. Andersen on 
being completely coated. Prepared specimens show the 
stippled margin noted in typical examples of the variety. 
All the specimens are broadly oval, narrowed at anterior 
extremity. Length varying from 6 to 8'50 mm., and breadth 
from 5 to 7 mm. 
LI. — Five new Rhinolophi from Africa. 
By Knud Andeesen. 
In working out a revision of the Ethiopian species of the 
genus RMnolophus I find the following new forms in the 
collection of the British Museum to need description : — 
RMnolophus empusa, sp. n. 
Short diagnosis. — Anterior upper and middle lower pre- 
molars placed in the tooth-row. Sella wedge-shaped (deltoid). 
Horseshoe as broad as muzzle. A conspicuous dark patch 
under each eye. Forearm 48 mm. 
Nose-leaves. — Horseshoe covering the muzzle laterally ; 
a small tooth-like projection on each side of median notch ; 
underlying leaf easily visible all round. Sella wedge-shaped ; 
breadth at base about three fourths of vertical height ; lateral 
margins plainly converging (with a scarcely perceptible 
constriction in the middle) towards the summit, which is 
subacutely pointed. Posterior connecting - process long, 
pointed, slightly curved forwards, as an erect horn, about 
five sixths the vertical height of the sella, thus projecting 
far beyond the summit of the sella. Lateral margins of 
lancet concave in the middle, tip behind constriction about 
2'3 mm. 
Ears. — Rather short, scarcely reaching tip of muzzle, when 
pressed forwards along the sides of the head. Tip obtusely 
pointed. Outer margin concave below the tip. Notch on 
outer margin shallow, almost rectangular. Extreme breadth 
of ear somewhat greater than the distance from the notch to 
the tip. 
Wings. — 5th metacarpal longer than 4th. 1st joint of 
4th finger equal to three fifths the length of 1st joint of 3rd 
finger. On the folded wing the tip of the 1st joint of the 
5th finger reaches as far back as the posterior point of the 
elbow ; tip of 1st joint of the 3rd finger falling only a trifle 
short of the same point. Plagiopatagium inserted at base of 
metatarsus. 
Tail. — Much longer than tibia, about the same length as 
the combined 1st and 2nd joints of the 4th finger. Tip of 
tail projecting 2 mm. beyond the membrane (a character