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setae very long. Anal ring and terminal hairs as in the 

 adult. 



Adult male red or reddish-fellow, rather large ; length of 

 body about ^V^- ' covered ^v^th much white meal, which, with- 

 the numerous hairs, renders it difficult to examine dead speci- 

 mens, especially the eyes. No lateral abdominal tassels, but 

 the last segment is somewhat dilated and tubercular, bearing 

 on each side a bundle of from four to six strong and rather 

 long set®, bearing two very long and very thick white cottony 

 " tails." Wings large, thick, and strong; thenervures browu, 

 strong, and conspicuous ; colour of wings darkish-gi-ey, pow- 

 dered with much white meal. Haltere very large, flat, fusi- 

 form, bearing two hooked seta?, not at the extremity, but on 

 the anterior margin. Head slightly produced in front : eyes 

 divided, each formed of eight tubercular segments, almost en- 

 circling the head, but not quite meeting dorsally and veutrally ; 

 each small tubercle in the ring may possibly be very obscm'ely 

 facetted. Colour of eyes dark-brown. A small simple ocellus 

 is placed behind the middle of each half-ring. Antenna? almost 

 as long as the body, with ten joints — the first two smooth ; the 

 rest, except the last, compressed in the middle, and bearing 

 each two rings of long hairs ; the last fusiform, hair}-, with 

 two curved spines as in the female. Feet very long and slen- 

 der, hamy ; claw bearing a minute tooth on the inner margin ; 

 a single process and digitule, as in the female. 



Amongst a large number of winged males received alive 

 from Eeefton early in October there were several specimens 

 almost apterous, exhibiting very small, useless, rudimentary 

 wings. "\Vith the exception of this character, however, I see 

 nothing to distinguish them from the others : they are similar 

 in the ejc^, feet, and antennae ; the head is separate from the 

 thorax ; and they are as active as their winged brethren. 



Hab. In New Zealand, on several trees — Podocarpus totara, 

 Fagus var. sp., Cupressus dacrydioides, Sac. — iu the forests of 

 the Eeefton district. Mr. Eaithby has kindly fm-nished me 

 with many specimens of both males and females. 



As remarked above, the absence of lateral abdominal tas- 

 sels in the male, with its tubercular extremity bearing more 

 than two seta?, and the eleven-jointed cyHndrical antenna of 

 the female, seem to me to bring this insect fiiirly within the 

 genus Leach ia. The very peculiar eyes of the male have not 

 their counterpart in any other Coccid with which I am yet ac- 

 quainted. With regard to the anogenital ring of the female, 

 tliis is certainly rather abnormal, as the ring in the 21onophle~ 

 hida is normally a simple orifice, without haks or pores; 

 but I find Signoret, although in his generic characters he in- 

 cludes a simple ring, stating that in L. braziliensis the anus is 

 " surrounded by a large number of spinnerets and long hairs," 



