TKANSACTIONS 



OP THE 



NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE, 



1894. 



I. — ZOOLOGY. 



Art. I. — Synoptical List of Coccidae reported from Austral- 

 asia and the Pacific Islands up to December, 1891. 



By W. M. Maskell, Eegistrar of the University of New Zea- 

 land, Corr. Mem. Eoy. Soc. of South Australia. 



[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 17th October, 1894.] 



Sub-family DIASPIDIN^. 

 Genus Aspidiotus, Bouche. 

 This genus is cosmopolitan. 



Aspidiotus acacia, Morgan. — Morgan, Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 Aug., 1889, p. 353; Maskell, N.Z. Inst. Trans., 1892, 

 p. 205. 

 Hob. In Tasmania, on Acacia pycnantha ; in New South 



Wales, on Eucalyptus sp. (Whitton). 



Aspidiotus acacia, Morgan, var. propinqua, Maskell. — Mas- 

 kell, N.Z. Trans., 1892, p. 205. 



Hab. In New South "Wales, on Acacia sp. (Mount Vic- 

 toria) ; on Hakea saligna (Sydney). 



Aspidiotus atherosperrle, Maskell. — Maskell, N.Z. Trans., 

 1878, p. 198 ; Scale-Insects of N.Z., 1887, p. 40. 

 Hab. In New Zealand, on Atherosperma novcs-zealandicz 



(Wellington; Hawke's Bay). 



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