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Notes: Nanhaiaspis chiulungensis, n. gen. and n. sp., is described on the basis of material collected on an undetermined bamboo in the Chiulung [Kowloon] Peninsula, opposite Hong Kong Island. Rugaspidiotus communis Hu, 1987, which occurs on reed in Hainan Island, is transferred to the new genus (Nanhaiaspis communis, n. comb.) on the supposition that it should be characterized nearly the same as N. chiulungensis, in contradiction to the original description. Referable to the Diaspidini but not to the Rugaspidiotini, Nanhaiaspis can be an incipient rugaspidiotine in having much reduced pygidial appendages and amphisomatic pygidial macroducts, and thus affords another clue to the Rugaspidiotini-problern, which has not been completely settled. In an appendix, Aulacaspis acronychiae, n. sp., is described on the basis of a single specimen collected in Hong Kong on Acronychia pedunculata. It is close to A. guangdongensis described from Guangdong, China, and occurring on Aglaia odorata.