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tinguish it. The female of the second stage resembles nearly 

 that of Ct. perforatus, but is somewhat thicker, and the mark- 

 ings of the segments o the test are different. 



Genus : INGLISIA, Maskell. 

 N.Z. Trans., Vol. XI., 1878, p. 213. 



Test of female glassy, elevated, striated with radiating rows 

 of air-cells. Fringe not always present in the adult stage. 



In the genus Fairmairia, Signoret, there is also an elevated 

 test, but it is waxy, and exhibits no air-cells, and has no fringe 

 in any stage. 



40. INGLISIA LEPTOSPERMI, Maskell. 



N.Z. Trans., Vol. XIV., 1881, p. 220; Vol. XVII., 1884,. 

 p. 27. 



(Plate IX., Fig 2.) 



Test of adult female white, glassy or waxy, elongated, convex- 

 above, flat and open beneath, formed of several agglutinated 

 segments, each segment more or less convex or conical, median 

 segments usually five in number ; at the edge an irregular 

 fringe, but the fringe is often absent. Average length of test r 

 j^in. The marginal segments sometimes assume the form of 

 small cones, as if a number of secondary tests were attached to 

 the principal one. All the segments are marked with striae 

 radiating from the apex of each : the striae, which are composed 

 of air-cells, widen from the apex to the base. 



Test of the male white, glassy, elongated, convex, not 

 unlike that of the female, but with a longer fringe ; it has also- 

 its posterior segment divided from the rest by a transverse slit 

 or hinge ; average length, about -^in. 



Adult female filling the test, shrivelling at gestation ; colour 

 brown; abdominal lobes yellow, conspicuous. The flat under- 

 surface is smooth ; the clorsum divided by large corrugations, 

 each segment corresponding to one in the test. Antennae of 

 seven joints, of which the third is the longest, the fourth, fifth, 

 and sixth the shortest ; a few hairs, especially on the last joint. 

 Feet normal; the tibia is somewhat thin, and has one spine or 

 hair at its tip. Digitules normal ; upper pair long knobbed 

 hairs, lower pair verv broad. 



