MaskELL.—On New Zealand Coccid®. 181 
there is a sort of false division near its end, with a hair or two, like that 
noticed above under C. perforatus. The last joint has several very long 
hairs. Feet (figs. 15, 16) normal of the group: the upper digitules fine 
long hairs, the lower pair very broad. The anal ring (fig. 17) bears a 
number of long hairs of which eight seem to be conspicuous. The colour 
of the insect is a golden brown ; diameter about yy inch. 
The second stage of the female (fig. 12) is normal of the genus, showing 
the wavy outline, somewhat strongly marked in many specimens but not 
conspicuous in others. The spiracular spines are prominent, and a row of 
conical spines runs round the edge of the body, as in the adult. The test 
is at first very thin and brittle, and with a fringe of broad, shallow, seg- 
ments: but afterwards becomes thicker, and in the end, before the change 
to the final stage, it approaches almost the form of the waxy test of an 
adult Ceroplastes. 
The young insect is normal. 
The male test (fig. 18) is much narrower than that of the female, having 
an irregularly rectangular edge with deep curvilinear depressions. It is 
glassy, white and shining, flat beneath and elevated above, and marked 
with numerous horizontal strie. The upper central portion is sometimes 
flat, sometimes an irregular mass of the glassy secretion. On the lower 
side there is often a plate of secretion, so that the pupa is almost entirely 
enclosed. The adult male (fig. 19) is normal of the genus. - The legs are 
very long and slender ; the four digitules are fine hairs. At the extremity 
of the tibia there is a strong spine. Abdominal spike, or sheath of the 
penis, slightly curved, with a seta on each side of its basal tubercle. An- 
tenne of ten joints (fig. 20): the first two very short, the rest longer and 
equal. On the last joint (fig. 21) are several long hairs, of which three are 
kuobbed. 
From Brachyglottis repanda and Panaw arboreum, only in the North 
Island, as yet. Mr. Buchanan, of the Geological Survey, has kindly sent 
me specimens. 
The shape and colour of the test, and the arrangement and form of the 
spinnerets, differentiate this species from others of the genus. In the pro- 
minence of the spiracular spines it resembles C. elongatus, mihi: in the row 
of conical spines round the edge it resembles C. fuscus, described below ; but 
both of these are otherwise different. 
` 8. Ctenochiton fuscus, sp. nov. 
Figs. 29, 30. 
Test of the adult female elliptical in outline, flat below, convex above, 
the elevation being greater than usual; almost black in colour, composed 
of a thin dark waxy secretion. ‘The fringe is conspicuous, and has the 
