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Female puparium circular, flat, dirty-white, about T V n - ^ n 

 diameter. 



Male puparium oval, dirty- white, about ^in. in length. 



Adult female light-yellow, peg-top shaped ; abdomen ending 

 in two somewhat prominent lobes, with scaly hairs and spines. 

 Four groups of spinnerets : upper groups with five or six orifices; 

 lower groups, three or four. 



Adult male yellow, slightly brown on the thorax; antennae 

 of ten joints, all hairy. 



Habitat On silver - wattle, Nelson. The insect is Euro- 

 pean, and found there on Budlceia salidna. 



Closely allied to A. nerii, but differing in the lobes and 

 spinnerets of the abdomen. 



3. ASPIDIOTUS CAMELLIA, Boisduval. 



Kermes camellia*, Boisduval, Ent. Hort., p. 334. 

 Aspidiotus camellia, Signorct, loc. cit., 1869, p. 117. 

 N.Z. Trans., Vol. XI., 1878, p. 200; Vol. XVII., 1881, 



p. 21. 



(Plate IV., Fig. 2.) 



Female puparium nearly circular, convex, greyish or brown- 

 ish in colour, about y^g-in. in diameter; pellicles often at one 

 side. 



Male puparium rather smaller, oval. 



Adult female of normal shape, but somewhat elongated. 

 Abdomen ending in two lobes, with a few scattered scaly hairs. 

 No groups of spinnerets. 



Habitat On camellias, Christchurch ; on euonymus, weeping 

 willow, &c., Wellington. 



Very common in gardens about Wellington : sometimes does 

 much damage to euonymus shrubs and hedges. 



4. ASPIDIOTUS CARPODETI, Maskell. 



N.Z. Trans., Vol. XVII., 1884, p. 21. 



Female puparium usually light-brown, but varying a little 

 with the colour of the bark of the tree ; convex ; circular ; the 

 pellicles in the centre ; some specimens are slightly elongated. 

 Average diameter, i^in. 



Male puparium narrow, with parallel sides ; not carinated ; 

 dirty-white or brownish colour ; length, about -^in. 



Adult female of the normal peg-top shape, the abdomen not 

 so much overlapped as usual. Abdomen ending in two median 



