Adult female at first elongate ovoid; moderately convex above; afterwards much shrivelled and contracted; elevated behind by the mass of eggs and enveloping secretion. Colour green, initially but later gets covered with mealy white secreation; median area becoming brownish with age, the whole scale turns brown after death. Eyes black, conspicuous during life. Anal operculum dark brown. After gestation, a mass of white cotton-like matter is secreted from the ventral area and pushed out from the margin. The insect then rests on a cottony cushion which projects on all sides. Ovisac profuse, highly convex, white, cottony, with an inconspicuous median furrow.