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longest; formula 6, 3 (2, 1), (4, 5); all joints except first with several hairs 

 Mentum fairly long and pointed, with a few hairs at tip. Spiracles widely- 

 dilated at both extremities. Legs, like the antennae, very short ; coxa short 

 and broad ; trochanter very large, with a single long fine hair ; femora thick, 

 with a few hairs on under- surface ; tibia short and thick, with 2 short 



Fig. 9. — Ripersia globulus. Abdominal segment with lobes ; X 120. 9a. Antennae 

 of adult female ; X 200. 96. Leg of adult female ; X 200. 



spines near tibio- tarsal joint; tarsus slightly shorter than tibia, and 

 more slender; upper digitules fine knobbed hairs, lower digitules fine 

 hairs slightly longer than claw. The coxa on the posterior pair of legs 

 is abnormally enlarged. Anal ring with 6 hairs, anal lobes imperceptible, 

 represented merely by 2 short conical spines and a single long fine hair. 

 Dermis covered with short fine hairs, interspersed with small round spin- 

 nerets. Length, 2-07 mm. 



Adult male unknown. 



Rob. — Subterranean, on grass-roots, moss, also in ants' nests ; Oamaru. 



Art. XIX. — New Coccidae. 

 By G. Brittin. 



[Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 2nd December, 1914.] 



The following paper contains the descriptions of one new genus and three 

 new species of the New Zealand Coccidae. 



The new genus Scutare will make a most interesting addition to the list 

 of the New Zealand Coccidae, and has been placed temporarily in the sub- 

 family Conchaspinae, to which it evidently belongs ; and if it should ulti- 

 mately be permanently placed in that subfamily a material alteration will 

 have to be made in the diagnosis of the Conchaspinae. The species fimbria ta 

 varies in several important points from all the species belonging to the 

 genus Conchaspis Cockerell. There is one genus of the Conchaspinae of 

 which I am at present unable to get any information, that is the mono- 

 typic genus Fagisuga* Lindinger. It may happen that my species belongs 

 to that genus, but until I have received word from England and America 

 I will leave it as at present placed. 



* " Catalogue of Coccidae;' vol. ii, U.S. Dept. Agric., 1 909, p. 35. 



