TEANSACTIONS 



OP THE 



NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE, 



1891. 



ZOOLOGY. 



AiiT. 1.— Further Coccid Notes: ivith Descriptions of Neiu 

 Sj^ecies, and Eemarks on Coccids from New Zealand, 

 Anstralia, and elsetvhere. 



By W. M. Maskell, Coit. Mem. Eoyal Society of South 

 Australia, Registrar of the University of New Zealand. 



[Read before the Wellington Philosoioliical Society, 21st October, 1^91.] 



Plates I.-XIII. 



The following pages contain notes and descriptions of a large 

 number of Coccids, including thirty-nine new species from 

 New Zealand, Australia, and India. I make no apology for 

 publishing in our Transactions descriptions of exotic species, 

 for independently of their own special interest there is no 

 certainty that any of them may not at any time make their 

 appearance in this country, as so many others have done 

 before them. 



The majority of my Australian species have been furnished 

 to me by Mr. French. One — Carteria acacice — comes from 

 Mr. Tepper, of Adelaide, as collected by the entomologist 

 attached to the Elder Expedition which, as I understand, is or 

 has been lately exploring the central regions of the continent. 

 The remainder, until a few months ago, formed part of the 

 collection of my late fiiend Mr. Erazer S. Crawford, of 

 Adelaide. These include, amongst others, two very intcrest- 

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