BY WALTER VV. FROGGATT. 279 



The pupae of this species do not protect themselves with any 

 kind of lerp-scale, but are found in a naked state, more or less 

 covered with filaments, upon the twigs and foliage of Fuchsia 

 excorticate/,, a New Zealand shrub. 



The adult insect is pale yellow, with the head and dorsal 

 surface mottled with black. Wings hyaline. 



Genus Aphalara, Forster. 



Head either swollen or produced into conical processes. Thorax 

 broad, wings rounded at tip, membranous; stigma wanting; i-adius 

 curved; stalk of cubitus in the forewing longer than stalk of 

 subcosta. Genitalia : male genital valves prolonged into two 

 slender processes encircling the penis. 



Aphalara tecta, Maskell. 



Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Australia, 1898, p. 6, pi. ii., figs. 5-10. 



This species was described from specimens from Victoria, the 

 exact locality not being given. I am unable to identify it, 

 though I have a number of Victorian species. Maskell's figures 

 of the lerp or " pupal shield " are unlike any specimens in my 

 collection; and the lerp-scales may be peculiar to E. stuartiana, 

 the food plant. 



" General colour yellow with the dorsal surface of the thorax 

 and abdomen marked with a few black patches; antennae yellow 

 with brown tips; wings hyaline." Maskell figures the head with 

 long face lobes like those of Spondyliaspis, and gives the wing 

 with a distinct stigma and a subcostal cell. The latter character 

 should remove it from this genus, which Forster defined as with- 

 out a stigma. The lerp-scale is narrow at the flange or hinge, 

 swelling out and rounded at the apex, transversely striated ; 

 yellow and opaque. 



APHALARA CARIXATA, n.sp. 



(Plates xii., fig. 7; xiv., fig. 16). 



The larvae attack the extreme tips of the leaves of E. capitellata, 

 forming half rounded galls through the tips of the leaves swelling 

 out and curving round. 



