Maskell. — On Coccididae. 249 



plate, on lifting up which the adult escapes. The enclosed 

 pupa is dark-red. 



Adult male dark-red, the wings hyaline with red nervures. 

 Length of the body about ^jin. exclusive of the spike. An- 

 tennas of ten joints, the first two short and tubercular, the next 

 five long and slender but diminishing somewhat to the seventh, 

 the eighth and ninth shorter and thicker, the tenth as long as 

 the fifth, very thick and subelliptical ; all the joints bear 

 several hairs. Feet long and slender, but with no special 

 characters. The abdominal spike is straight and rather long, 

 being nearly as long as the abdomen. The terminal abdomi- 

 nal tubercles bear each two setas, from which spring moderately 

 long cottony " tails." 



Hob. In Australia. Mr. Koebsle sent me specimens of 

 the males and the second-stage females on Myrica cerifera, 

 from Sydney. Mr. Olliff later on sent me two parcels of the 

 adults at different times on a "native shrub," the bark of 

 which appears to me not to be the same as that of Myrica. 

 The first of these two parcels was so much parasitized that I 

 could make nothing of it ; and in the second there were so 

 many parasitic larvae enclosed in the masses of wax that it was 

 with great difficulty I extracted a few uninjured specimens of 

 Carteria. These parasites seemed to burrow through the waxy 

 tests and feed at leisure on the imprisoned insects, and the 

 whole space was filled with their excretions. 



This, in the form of the tests, especially those of the male 

 and the second-stage female, is a very pretty species. It may 

 be very easily mistaken at first sight for a Ceroplastes, from 

 the corrugations of the tests ; indeed, Mr. Koebele originally 

 sent it to me under that name. As usual with Carteria, a 

 great deal of care is necessary to ascertain the real shape of 

 the body, and the epidermis is so tender that the ordinary 

 processes for diagnosis must be undertaken with much caution. 

 The pupal tests both of male and female form pretty micro- 

 scopic objects. 



Carteria melaleucse, Maskell. N.Z. Trans., 1891, vol. xxiv., 

 p. 54. 



The waxy tests of several specimens of this species which 

 I have received from Mr. Koebele and Mr. Olliff during the 

 past year have presented a number of small knobs and excres- 

 cences which were not noticeable on those sent me in 1891 

 by Mr. French . These later specimens were on Leptospcrmum, 

 Sydney, and, as the enclosed insects were identical with C. 

 melaleuca, I would not attempt to separate them simply on 

 account of the small differences in the tests. 



The second-stage female resembles nearly that of C. acacia, 

 Mask., 1891, but the test is much darker in colour. 



