SCALE INSECTS ( • COCCID/E ") OK A IS'l'liAlJ A. (i'.t 



Genus XXXII. (xossyparia, Signoret. 



AuH. Sac. Eut.. France (o), vol. ."), ]>. 20. 187.1. 



.Maskcll, Tranx. .V. Zealand Institutr, vol. xxii, j). 227. 1S92. 



In this i>omus tlic adult female, though naked, rest.s upon and is surrounded 

 with a pad of white cottony secretion so that only her dorsal surface appears 

 to be naked, Init when dead is easily detachefl from the surrounding secretion. 

 The feet and antenna' are well developed. The typical form is the elm-tree 

 scale {(jossi/paria spuria), common in Euro])e and North America. 



This in point of numbers is a small genus containing onlv six described 

 species, three of which are peculiar to Australia, oiu^ from New Zealand, 

 another on the Taiiiari.r in Asia Minor, Northern Africa, and Eastern Europe, 

 and the elm-tree scale. 



Gossyjmna (:nsuuriiire, Maskeli. 

 Trans. New Zealand Institute, vol. xxv, })1. xiv. tig.s. 12-13. 1892. 



Sj)ecimens of this S])ecies were collected upon the branchlets of an un- 

 determined sj)ecies of Canvariva, near Sydney, New South Wales. 



Adult female varying from dark to light brown, elliptical, convex, elon- 

 gated, resting upon a cushion of woolly secrelion with the back uncovered. 

 Length about yV of an inch. Antenna- six-jointed, the third longest, the 

 fourth and fifth the shortest. Feet with the tarsus longer than the tibia : 

 digitules tine hairs. Anal tubercles distinct. Mentum dimerous. The 

 margin of the Ixidy fringed with close slender spines. 



Maskeli savs : '' The cushion of grev cotton in this species is nxore scanty 

 than is usual in this genus, almost the whole insect l)eing exposed instead of 

 only the dorsum as is ordinary. 



27.5. Gossyparia casiiarinrp. Cat. Coccida", p. 68. 



(iossypdria coiiflueus, Maskeli. 

 Trans. Xeic Zealand Institute, vol. xxv, ]>. 227, pi. xiv, tig. 4. 1892. 



This species was also sent to Mr. Maskeli aboiit the .sanu' time as the pre- 

 vious one, from near Svdnev, New South Wales, found u|)on an undeter- 

 niined s])ecies of Ei(c(dy2>tiiii. 



The adult females pidduce a mass of white cottony seci'etion, sometimes 

 tinged with vellow. upon the twigs of the gum-tree, in which a nund)er are 

 enveloped but not hidden in the continent mass of filaments. The naked 

 female is dark-red, convex, elongate oval, antenna' six-jointed, first three 

 longest, of crjual length. Feet rather long, tarsus longer than tibia. Anal 

 tubercles well (h-lined. Epidermis covered with tine slender spines, anal 

 ring with eight hairs. 



277. Gossyporla covjlimtis. Cat. Coccidie, p. (58. 



