XXX. NOTES ON INDIAN COCCIDAE OF THE SUB-FAMIIvY DIASPIDINAE, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. 5y E.Ernest Green. F.E.S., F.Z.S. (Plates XXVI— XXXI). Since the publication of my last enumeration of Coccidae from the Continent of India {■ Mem. Dep. Ag. Ind.' Ent. Ser., II, No. 2, Ap. 1908), many fresh records have accumulated, including a considerable number of undescribed species. The present paper deals with those belonging to the sub-family Diaspidinae. describ-ing the new species land listing others that have not previously been recorded from India. Of the fifty species now added to the Indian list, twenty are here described for the first time. It is only to be expected that, in such a vast and (in this respect) unex-plored region, we can have touched no more than the fringe of the subject. Every fresh parcel that I receive discloses one or more novelties. I am indebted to T. V. Ramakrishna Aiyar, of the Agri-cultural College, Coimbatore, for repeated consignments of valu-able and interesting material. I have also had the privilege of examining collections from the Indian Museum, from the Agricul-tural Research Institute (Pusa), from the Forest Zoologist (Dehra Dun) and from the Poona Agricultural College. Diaspis cinnamomi-mangifcrae, Newst. (Pi. XXVI, fig. i^). Female puparium thin, semitranslucent, whitish, circular. Dried insect pallid : probably yellowish in life. Form similar to that of D. rosae : the thoracic area broad, the abdominal area con-stricted. Pygidium with median lobes smaller, narrower, and less divergent than in rosae. On Mangifera indica : Bangalore [Ramakrishna, No. 114). Diaspis loranthi, Green, (PI. XXVI, fig. ig). On Loranthiis cordijoHus : Paresnath, Bihar, 4000 ft. {Ind. Mus. No. 71). Differs iromrosae in the larger, more prominent and more rounded median lobes, which extend far beyond the lateral lobes. Dr. Annandale writes of this species, " It has perhaps
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