58 INSECTS NOXIOUS TO AGKICULTUKE. 



This, Mr. Comstock says, necessitates now an entirely new 

 generic name. 



Targioni's nomenclature has been followed here, as likely to 

 lead to less confusion. 



26. FIORINIA ASTELI.E, Maskell. 

 Diaspis gig as, Maskell. 

 N.Z. Trans., Vol. XI., 1878, p. 201 ; Vol. XIV., 1881, 



p. 217; Vol. XVII., 1884, p. 24. 

 Uhleria gigas, Comstock ; 2nd Entom. Rep., Cornell Univ., 



1883, p. 111. 



(Plate VI., Fig. 6.) 



Female puparium elongated, flat, roughly pyriform or ovate, 

 thin; the secretion is yellowish-brown or dirty-white, but is 

 scarcely noticeable, on account of the second pellicle ; length 

 variable, from -j^in. to Jin. ; breadth, about -j^in. First 

 pellicle small, at one end. Second pellicle, very large, almost 

 filling the puparium, roughly pyriform ; abdominal region seg- 

 mented ; cephalic region large, oval ; abdominal segments 

 tapering, exhibiting at the extremity either minute serrations, 

 floriated lobes, or tusk-like lobes, or a smooth curve ; the first 

 abdominal segment sometimes produced into roundly-triangular 

 lobes. 



Male puparium flattish, elongated; length, from T \jin. to 

 Jin. ; white, thin ; roughly pyriform, but narrower than that of 

 the female ; central portion slightly convex, seeming on the 

 underside to have two keels ; not carinated above. 



Adult female yellow or brown ; segmented ; at first elon- 

 gated, the cephalic region comparatively large, but during 

 gestation shrinking up until the insect assumes the form of 

 Aspidiotus. Abdomen ending in a minutely-serrated edge, with 

 several small simple lobes, between which are longish spiny 

 hairs. Spinnerets in an almost continuous arch, containing 

 seventy to a hundred orifices ; several single spinnerets. 



Adult male yellow, slender. Antennae, ten-jointed, as long 

 as the body ; each joint except the two first long and hairy ; 

 the last joint fusiform. Feet, long and slender ; digitules, fine 

 hairs. Abdominal spike, slender, not very long, springing from 

 a small tubercular base. 



This is a variable insect in size, colour, edge of abdomen, 

 and spinnerets. On the bark of Pittosporum eugenioide a variety 



