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GlYPHIPTERYGID AE . 



Glyphipteryx plagigera n. sp. 



^^. 9I-II mm. Head ochreous-white. Thorax fuscous-brown. Palpi 

 moderately tufted beneath, ochreous-white with 4 obscure fuscous rings. 

 Abdomen blackish-grey, obscurely annulated Avith white. Posterior legs 

 black, tibiae and tarsi annulated with white. Forewings elongate, mode- 

 rately dilated posteriorly, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen 

 oblique ; dark greyish-fuscous, purplish tinted and more or less sprinkled 

 with white posteriorly ; a narrow, outwardly oblique, white streak from 

 costa at J, reaching to near middle of wing ; 5 similar streaks between 

 this and apex, the last two less oblic^ue ; a broad white blotch on dorsum 

 near base and a similar one before middle, sometimes uniting at apex ; 

 an obscure white streak from tornus, sometimes uniting with third costal 

 streak : cilia fuscous-grey with median line and apical hook darker. Hind- 

 wings broadly lanceolate ; fuscous-grey : cilia fuscous-grey. 



Distinguished from G. leptosema Meyr. and G. iochaera Meyr., which 

 have somewhat similar markings, by the tufted palpi. G. oxymachaera 

 Meyr. has tufted palpi, but differs from the present species by the absence 

 of the dorsal blotches and the presence of a submedian stripe. 



Bluff, in November. Three specimens. 



Art. XLIV. — Notes on some Coccidae in the Canterbury Museum, together 

 with a Description of a New Species. 



By G. Brittin. 

 [Read before the Philosophical Institute of Caiiterbury, 3rd November, 1915.] 



Since my last paper on New Zealand Coccidae was read before this Institute 

 I have had an opportunity of making an examination of the Coccid slides 

 deposited in the Canterbury Museum by the late Mr. W. M. Maskell, and 

 the following are some notes on the different species. 



Eriococcus multispinus Mask., Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 11 (1879), p. 217; 

 vol. 23 (1891), p. 21 ; vol. 24 (1892), p. 31. 



In dealing with this species, Mr. Maskell has undoubtedly mixed up 

 E. )n>dtispinus with E. palUdus. In his original diagnosis of E. multispinus 

 (vol. 11, p. 217) he states, "The insect is seen to have several rows of large 

 conical spines. . . . The antennae have 6 joints, the 3rd being the 

 longest, the 4th and 5th equal to each other and nearly round." Again, 

 in giving the generic and group distinctions among the Acanthococcidae 

 and Dactylojnnae (vol. 24), " Passing now to the genus Eriococcus, figs. 11, 

 12, and 14 of Plate IV show that there are three antennal forms, and 

 figs. 16 and 17 that there are two forms of marginal spines in the genus. 

 Fig. 14 (E. raithhyi) differs from fig. 11 {E. multispinns) only in having 

 7 joints: in both the joints are subequal. But in fig. 12 [E. pallid us) the 

 3rd joint is much longer than any of the others. As regards the spines, 

 those of E. pallidus and its allies are shown in fig. 16 to be much larger and 

 more slender than those of E. multispinus and its allies, fig. 17." In treat- 

 ing of the variations of E. jmllidus (vol. 23, p. 21), he says, " This species 

 exhibits several variations in the arrangement of the dorsal spines, and 



