76 INSECTS NOXIOUS TO AGEICULTUKE. 



The female in the second stage is also convex above, flat 

 below, but is less thick than the adult, and has not the corruga- 

 tions. General form elongated-oval; the abdominal lobes are 

 not, as usual, smooth, but approach by irregularity the anal 

 tubercles of the Coccidinae, and like them bear a few hairs. 

 The anal ring has eight hairs. Antennae of six joints. Feet 

 normal ; digitules as in adult. On the skin are several scattered, 

 circular, very minute spinnerets ; the stigmatic spines are long 

 and conspicuous, and along the edge runs a row of conical hairs 

 or spines. 



Adult male yellowish-green in colour, the body slender and 

 tapering. From the abdomen spring two very long white cottony 

 setae, one on each side of the spike, which is straight and short. 

 Antennas of ten joints ; the first two short, the rest long, thin, 

 and hairy. Of these, the seventh, eighth, and ninth are the 

 shortest; on the last joint three long knobbed hairs. Feet 

 slender, hairy ; digitules normal. Thoracic band inconspicuous. 



Habitat On Leptospermum scoparium (manuka) ; Christ- 

 church, Kaiapoi, Wellington, Auckland. It affects the twigs of 

 the plant, and not the leaves. 



41. INGLISIA ORNATA, Maskell. 



N.Z. Trans., Vol. XVII., 1884, p. 27. 



(Plate X., Fig. 1.) 



Test of adult female reddish-brown, the base more or less 

 oval, the rest elevated in a cone and ending in a prominence 

 standing up like a more or less sharp horn ; sometimes there 

 are two of these horns. The test is formed of a number of 

 polygonal segments, each slightly elevated, and all are marked 

 with the radiating striae peculiar to the genus. There is a fringe 

 of sharply triangular segments, also striated. Average length 

 of test, about Jin., but specimens attain a length of iin. ; height, 

 about j^in. 



Test of second stage generally resembling that of the adult, 

 but smaller and less conical, and more tinged with green ; and 

 at the edge a number of short spinneret tubes may be seen 

 protruding. 



