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In its perfect state the male has a roundish head with two globular eyes 
on its anterior portion, and further back, in the place where the rostrum 
should be, two other eyes (?) filled with a mass of pigment. The antenne 
are long, hairy, ten-jointed. The wings are a little longer than the body. 
The thorax is somewhat broad, with a band crossing it near the middle; 
this band (seen I believe in all species of Diaspide#) does not in this species 
reach across the whole thorax. The abdomen, smaller than the thorax, is 
oval, and ends in a tubular sheath from which start the two long spikes 
characteristic of the Diaspide. The legs exhibit a few hairs; the femora 
are thick; the tibiw not very long, narrow; the tarsi end in the usual single 
claw. 
2. Aspidiotus budlai, SP 
On the silver wattle, in Nelson, last year, I found specimens which I 
believe to belong to this species. I have had one or two from a tree of the 
same kind in Christchureh. My specimens are all females. 
The difference between this and the last species is, for the female, in 
the number of the spinnerets. These are in four groups, the two upper 
ones having only five or six openings, the two lower only three or four. 
Tt is possible that these specimens may be Aspidiotus aloes. It requires 
an examination of the male to distinguish clearly. 
3. Aspidiotus atherosperma, sp. nov. 
I take this to be a new species; I have it from an indigenous tree, 
Atherosperma nove-zealandie. The puparium resembles that of Aspidiotus 
epidendri, but is somewhat darker in colour. The adult female is much 
more corrugated, and the corrugations overlap the abdominal region. The 
pygidium has four groups of spinnerets; the upper pair have 15 openings, 
the lower 9 or 10. The abdomen ends in several lobes, of which the four 
middle ones are the largest. The rest of the lobes are sharply pointed. 
Between the lobes are scaly serrated hairs. 
Plate VL, figs. 7a and b, shows the adult female and the abdomen. 
4. Aspidiotus dysoryli, sp. nov. 
Plate VL, fig. 7. 
The puparium is brown, somewhat convex, the underside white. The 
female in the middle is bright yellow, corrugated, the corrugations over- 
lapping the abdominal region which is comparatively small. There are 
four groups of spinnerets—the upper pair with ten openings, the lower with 
nine, many scattered oval and oblong spinnerets. The abdomen ends in 
six lobes, of which only the two median are conspicuous; between the lobes 
fine, serrated hairs. The abdomen is very velvety. 
? Am the second stage, shown in plate VI., fig. 7c, the body is more oval 
g i 24 ihe rostral sete are exceedingly 1 ong. 
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