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orifices, aud on the dorsum there are four other longitudinal 

 rows of small circular spinnerets. Mentum dimerous. 



Male pupa entirely enclosed in a cylindrical yellowish sac 

 of closely-felted secretion. Length of sac about y\M^- > length 

 of pupa about oMn. Pupa red, apodous, elongated, narrow, 

 segmented, the segments obscure excejit the last four or five ; 

 exhibiting at the abdominal extremity two short anal tu- 

 bercles. 



Adult male unknown. I have made unsuccessful efforts to 

 hatch any from several specimens of the pupa. 



Hab. In New' Zealand, on Fagiis, various species. As yet 

 only from Capleston, Inangahua, where it seems to be 

 plentiful. 



This is in several respects a curious and interesting insect. 

 The employment of the second pellicle in the adult test is a 

 character not hitherto reported of any member of the group 

 CoccidincB. From the absence of the feet in the second stage 

 it results that the insect is not likely to be found far from the 

 spot on which it emerged as a larva. The larva' of most 

 Coccids prefer to seek their sustenance, if not on the leaves, 

 on the young shoots of a plant ; accordingly, I understand 

 from Mr. Eaithby, who originally found the species, that in- 

 dividuals are rarely found on wood more than a year or so 

 old. It must happen also that two or three larva; congregate 

 together about the time of their metamorphosis, and the re- 

 sulting second-stage females, not being able to get away, 

 change also to the adult form in the same place ; and so we 

 find now and again two or three adults crowded together or 

 piled on each other. In a specimen of a heap of this kind in 

 my collection the lowest insect has excreted a small quantity 

 of dark-pink cotton round the edges of its test : as I have not 

 observed this in any other amongst some scores of individuals 

 examined, I cannot take it as normal. As regards the spout- 

 like tube, it is to be noted that the prolongation of the female 

 abdomen would, in the test, pretty nearly correspond to the 

 inner opening of the tube. 



Solenophora corokiae, sp. nov. Plate V., figs. 19-24. 



Insect constructing a pear-shaped, smcoth, waxy test, 

 which is ])rolonged at the abdominal extremity in a short 

 tube, either straight or slightly turned upwards : this tube is 

 at the extremity itself, and not a little above it as in the 

 last species. Colour of test brownish-yellow ; length about 

 ji^in. The second pellicle does not appear to be employed 

 in the test. 



Adult female brown ; length about i^X)^n. ; pegtop-shaped, 

 the cephalic and thoracic i^egions large, abdomen tapering to 

 the anal tubercles, which are of moderate size and setiferous ; 



