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chequered, basal half tawny-ochreous, exterior whitish. Secondaries below 
very pale whitish-brown; basal half irrorated with dark chocolate-brown, 
and the three transverse lines, and a short abbreviated line, near the anal 
angle, formed by condensation of such irroration ; a very thin lunular mar- 
ginal dusky line ; cilia pale with indistinct dusky chequers. 
Thorax, olive-green. Abdomen, tawny-ochreous, with anal tuft, and 
tufted along the sides. Palpi, connivent, in form of a beak. Antenne 
finely serrated. 
Length of body, 4"' ; Expanse of wings, 11'"—1" 1”, 
Female.—Appears to differ from the male only in size, form of antenna, 
and absence of abdominal tufts. Antenne simple, scarcely pubescent. 
Length of body, 43". Expanse of wings, 1" 1'/—1" 2” 
Hab. New Zealand, plentiful in bushy gullies between the eastern 
spurs of Mount Hutt, Canterbury. - 
This species is readily distinguished by the purplish belt, brilliant white 
lines, and bright olive-green of the primaries. In all but colour it much 
resembles Cidaria rixata, Feld. (Coremia squalida, Butl.), but is at once 
distinguishable therefrom by the outer margin of the dark central belt 
being very deeply indented along the lower branch of the median nervure. 
C. rizata is found in abundance under overhanging banks of river-beds, in 
bushy gullies where the water has excavated holes and hollows beneath the 
roots of trees. Poking under these banks with a stick brings them out in 
numbers, when they fly a little way, and settle again, always in a similar 
place. C. purpurifera, though found in the same locality, does not take to 
the excavations, but is found by beating the bush and herbage on the banks 
above; I have taken it in December and January, but not having been to 
the locality at any other time, cannot say if it is out in any other month. 
Art V.—Further Notes on Coccide in New Zealand, with Descriptions of 
Species. By W. M. Masxezz, F.R.M.S. 
[Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 4th October, 1883.) 
Plates I. and II. 
1st Group. —DIASPIDA. 
Genus, Aspidiotus, Bouché. 
1. Aspidiotus aurantii, mihi. 
(Trans., vol. € 199: vol. xiv., p. 217.) 
Tur must be abandono as a species. From a communication from 
M. Signoret, I find that it is identical with A. coccineus, Gennadius. .A 
description of this last is to be found, I believe, in a Report to the Minister 
