106 INSECTS NOXIOUS TO AGKICULTUKE. 



bearing a very long seta. Six longitudinal rows of circular 

 multilocular spinnerets, four on the dorsum and one on each 

 edge. Alternating with these are rows of hairs with tubercular 

 bases. 



Adult mde large, the length slightly varying ; some speci- 

 mens reach Jin. ; expanse of wings, iin. ; length of antennae, 

 about iin. Body red, with a shining, diamond-shaped, black 

 patch on the dorsal surface of the thorax; legs and antennae 

 black. Wings dark-brown with (in some lights) a bluish tinge, 

 marked with oblique, narrow, w r avy stripes ; main ncrvure red, 

 branching once; there are also two longitudinal, whitish, 

 narrow bands.* Antennas very long and slender, with ten joints, 

 which may easily be taken for nineteen, for, after the first, 

 which is short, round, and simple, all the other nine have two- 

 dilated portions with a constriction in the middle, and on each 

 dilation is a ring of very long hairs, giving the antenna a feathery 

 appearance. f Eyes very large and prominent, almost peclun- 

 culated, brown, divided into numerous semiglobular facets. Feet 

 long and very hairy; coxa3 short and thick, tibiae long and 

 slender, claw thin ; upper digitules absent, lower pair only short 

 bristles. Abdomen slender, segments somewhat distinct ; on 

 each segment some hairs ; the last segment ends in two thick, 

 conspicuous, cylindrical processes, which, in side view, are seen 

 to incline upwards, and beneath them is the short, conical spike 

 sheathing the penis. Penis red, longish, tubular, and thick, 

 with many recurved short hairs, and at the end a ring of short 

 spines. Each of the two processes on the last segment bears 

 three or four long setae, but there do not appear to be any of 

 the long cottony appendages seen in the males of most Coccids. 



Habitat On wattle, pine, orange, lemon, cypress, rose, 

 gorse, grass, and, in fact, on almost every kind of native and 

 introduced plants, Nelson, Hawke's Bay, Auckland. It will pro- 

 bably appear also elsewhere, but the climate of Canterbury and 

 Otago may prove too cold in winter for it. 



Allied to /. saccliari, Guerin, which damages sugar-canes in 

 Mauritius ; but differing in the formation of the ovisac, the 



* Signoret (Ann. de la Soc. Ent. cle France, 1875), under the genus Mono- 

 plilcbus, speaks of " les plis hyalins " as existing also in the wings of the males- 

 of that genus. 



t Misled by similar appearances, Burmeister and Westwood assign twenty- 

 five joints to the male antenna of Leachia fuscipcnnis. 



