This insect belongs to Signoret's fifth series.
A European species, L. cycadis, Boisduval, is said by Dr. Signoret to closely resemble L. oleæ, the only difference apparently being the possession of nine-jointed antennæ. This character is so exceptional in the genus that it perhaps may be but doubtful.
Genus: PULVINARIA, Targioni-Tozzetti.
Female insects naked, arboreal, constructing an ovisac. Male pupæ in cottony or waxy sacs.
50. Pulvinaria camellicola, Signoret, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, 1873, p. 32.
Maskell, N.Z. Trans., Vol. XI., 1878, p. 207.
([Plate XII.], Fig. 1.)
Adult female yellowish- or reddish-brown, naked, slightly convex, elongated; skin smooth, with puncta; length variable, from about 1/7in. to 1/9in. Antennæ (according to Signoret) with sometimes six, sometimes seven, joints. Abdominal cleft and lobes normal. The insect excretes a narrow, white, cylindrical cottony ovisac, which is conspicuous on the leaf of the plant, and the brown body of the female can be seen at one end of it. The eggs in this ovisac are numerous, perhaps some hundreds.
Larva and second stage of female flat, oval, yellowish-brown.