TEANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE, 



1890. 



I. — ZOOLOGY. 



Akt. I. — Further Coccid Notes : Kith Descriptions of New 

 Species from Netv Zealand, Australia, and Fiji. 



By W. M. Maskell, F.E.M.S., Corr. Mem. Eoyal Society 

 of South Australia. 



[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 8th October, 1890.] 



Plates I.-VII. 



Of the eighteen or t"wenty new species and varieties mentioned 

 in the following paper, five are Australian. These have been 

 very kindly furnished to me by Mr. C. French, Government 

 Entomologist of Victoria, who has allowed me to trespass 

 largely upon his good-nature for supplies of specimens. I re- 

 gret that I have not been able to include in this paper a most 

 remarkable Coccid, of which Mr. French has sent me several 

 examples, and which forms on Casuarina, in the neighbour- 

 hood of Melbourne, large galls, through which protrude hard 

 and horny cylindro-conical tubes forming the insect's particu- 

 lar domicile. This species belongs, as far as I can make out, 

 to none of the genera at present known of Coccids ; but, as I 

 have not yet a sufficiently complete series of all its stages of 

 growth, in ^'iew of its very curious features its description 

 must be postponed for the present. I am again indebted to 

 Mr. K. L. Holmes, of Bua, Fiji, who has sent me a Diaspid 

 described in this paper ; and the remainder of my new species, 

 with the exception of Lecanium cassinicB, are due to the as- 

 siduous industry of Messrs. Kaithby and Cavell, of Inangahua, 

 in this country, who have been, as last year, of the greatest 

 assistance to me. 



Two of the genera herein given — Parlatoria and Leachia 

 — are new to the South Seas. Our New Zealand example of 

 the latter is decidedly interesting from the peculiar eyes of 

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