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"25. POLIASPIS MEDIA, Maskell. 



N.Z. Trans., Vol. XII., 1879, p. 293. 

 (Plate VI., Fig. 5.) 



Female puparium white, elongated, pyriform, slightly con- 

 vex ; length, about yV n - 



Male pnparium elongated, narrow, white, doubtfully cari- 

 nated. 



Adult female elongated, segmented ; greenish-white ; length, 

 about ^in. Rudimentary antennae visible. Abdomen ending 

 with a median depression, and inconspicuous lobes ; several 

 scattered spiny hairs. Eight groups of spinnerets : four, con- 

 taining each from twenty to thirty orifices, are placed in oppo- 

 site pairs, the fifth, with four to six orifices, being between the 

 upper pair ; above these, three other groups form an arch, the 

 two outer ones having eight to ten openings, the middle one 

 three to five. Many single spinnerets. 



Adult male of a bright scarlet or deep-orange colour. The 

 antennae, covered with longish hairs, have ten joints, the first 

 two very short and thick ; the next five long, equal, and cylin- 

 drical ; the eighth and ninth somewhat shorter ; the tenth 

 fusiform, and as long as the seventh. The legs are rather long ; 

 the femur thick, the tibia more slender, broadening towards the 

 tarsus, which is about one-third as long as the tibia, and narrows 

 sharply down to the claw. Both tarsus and tibia are hairy. The 

 digitules are fine hairs. 



Habitat On Veronica, sp., and Leucopogon Fraseri, North 

 Kowai River, Canterbury ; on Cyathodes acerosa, Wellington ; 

 on ferns, Napier. 



Genus : FIORINIA, Targioni-Tozzetti. UHLERIA, Comstock ; 

 2nd Entom. Rep., Cornell Univ., 1883, p. 110. 



Female puparium elongated; first pellicle small, at one 

 end ; second pellicle very large, entirely covering the insect, and 

 almost extending to the edges of the puparium. 



Male puparium elongated ; smaller and narrower than that 

 of the female ; sometimes carinated ; pellicle at one end. 



Mr. Comstock proposes the name " Uhleria " for this genus, 

 because Professor Targioni, establishing his genus for the species 

 to which he originally gave the name of Diaspis fiorinia, 

 changed at the same time the specific name to "pellucida." 



