232 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. A CONTEIBUTION TO THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE COCCIDiE.* By T. D. a. Cockerkll. monophlebin^. Monophlehus, Leach. Monophlehiis, Leach, in Westwood, Arc. Ent. i. (1845), p. 22. Tyi^e, atripemiis. Guerinia, Targ.-Tozz., in Signoret, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1875, p. 352. Type, serratulce. Drosicha, Walker, List Homop. Brit. Mus. Supp. (1858), p. 306. Type, contrahens. Tessarohelns, Montronzier, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xi. (1864), p. 246. Type, guerinii. Llaveia, Signoret, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1875, p. 370. Type, axin. Ortonia, Signoret, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1875, p. 367 (not Ortonia, Wood, 1869). Type, uhleri. Protortonia, Townsend, Jn. N. Y. Ent. Soc. ,1898, p. 169. Type, yrimitivus. 2 . Soft, somewhat elongated, more or less hairy, with powdery or cottony secretion. Legs and anteunse present ; antennae 11-(some-times 9-) jointed ; no long posterior ovisac. One species has 7-jointed antennae. 3' . With fleshy caudal processes, arranged along the sides of the abdomen. Species. — M. duhius, Fabr. {fahricii, Westw.), Sumatra; M. atripennis, King, Java; M. leachi, Westw., Malabar; M. saun-clersi, Westw., India; M. hurmeisteri, Westw., India (?) ; M. zey-lanicus, Green, Ceylon ; M. contrahens, Signoret, China ; M. maskelli, Ckll. {hnrmeisteri, Maskell, Tr. N.Z. Inst. xxix. p. 327), Japan ; M. corpulentus, Kuwana, Japan. M. illigeri, Westw., Tasmania ; M. crawfordi, Maskell, Aus-tralia; M. fusciis, Maskell, Australia; M. giiei-inii, Montr., New Caledonia. M. sermtulcs, Fabr., Algeria ; M.fortis, Ckll., Natal ; M.ful-leri, Ckll., Natal ; M. raddoni, Westw., W. Africa. M. axin, Llave, Mexico ; M. primitivus, Townsend, Mexico ; M. mexicanormn, Ckll., Mexico; M. bouvari, Signoret, Guatemala ; M. uhleri, Signoret, Ecuador ; M. championi, Ckll., Panama ; M. cacti, Linne, St. Eustatius Island, Lesser Antilles. Unfortunately, many of the species are known only in one sex. The genus may be divided into a number of sections, thus : — (1.) Monophlehus, Leach. Male with two caudal appendages. M. atripennis, M. duhius. * For tables of subfamilies and genera, see ' Canadian Entomologist,' October, 1899.
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