60 INSECTS NOXIOUS TO AGBICULTUEE. 



ous median lobes, with three others, much smaller, on each side. 

 From the serrations spring some hairs. There are five groups of 

 spinnerets, but the three upper ones, almost or quite conjoined, 

 form a nearly-continuous arch, containing forty to fifty orifices ; 

 the two lower groups have fifteen to twenty. There are several 

 single spinnerets. The adult insect, before gestation, nearly fills 

 the space covered by the second pellicle ; after gestation it shrinks 

 up into very small compass at the cephalic end of the puparium. 



Adult male unknown. 



Habitat On Erachy glottis repanda ; Panax arboreum, Port 

 Hills, Canterbury. 



Differs from the European species, F. pellucida (Targioni) , in 

 its extremely-minute size, in the serrations of the abdomen, and 

 the number of its hairs. Also in F. pellucida the young female 

 larva has two tubercles between the antennae, which are not seen 

 in F. minima. 



29. FIOEINIA STRICTA, Maskell. 



N.Z. Trans., Vol. XVI., 1883, p. 121 ; Vol. XVII., 1884, 



p. 24. 



(Plate VI., Fig. 7.) 



Female puparium elongated, narrow, with sides almost 

 straight and parallel ; length, about ^yin.; breadth, about ^in. 

 Colour of secretion, white, but seeming black, as the second 

 pellicle shows through it. First pellicle, black, small, at one end; 

 the cephalic portion prolonged in a slightly-cylindrical form. 

 Second pellicle, very long, filling the puparium black ; entire 

 for most of its length, but at the abdominal extremity cut across 

 by transverse divisions forming narrow radiating segments ; ex- 

 treme edge semicircular, sharply serrated. Texture, horny, hard, 

 and strong. 



Male puparium elongated, narrow, like that of the female ; 

 length, about -j^in.; colour white ; pellicle, black, at one end ; 

 not carinated. 



Some puparia, both male and female, are found slightly 

 -curved. 



Adult female small, elongated, segmented ; length, about 

 B J in., shrivelling at gestation. Cephalic portion compressed, 

 cylindrical. Abdomen somewhat elongated, ending in a number 

 of sharp-pointed, triangular, tooth-like lobes, between which may 

 be made out a few (four ?) very minute, roundly- triangular lobes. 



