Maseeni,,—0n some Coccide in New Zealand, 219 
Traversia, Cassinia, ete. I am glad to say that the gardener, Mr, Arm- 
strong, has seen the little white-eyes (Zosterops) busily engaged in picking 
them off the plants. 
The general form of the female is shown in plate VIIL., fig. 19a. Itis 
pink in colour, covered with white meal. It resembles in several particulars 
some of the Dactylopii described by M. Signoret, but, either in the antennæ, 
or in the feet, or in the appendages, differs from them all. The body is pretty 
regularly oval, the segments very distinct; the appendages are short except 
at the posterior end where there are two very long, with, on each side of 
them, another somewhat shorter. The two longest surround the hairs of 
the anal tubercles, which are inconspicuous, and between them is visible 
the white pencil of meal surrounding the anal setze, 
The interior substance of the body, expressed for mounting, appears to 
be very oily, at least containing great numbers of oil globules. The 
antenne, in the adult female, have eight joints, fig. 195, of which the 8rd 
and 8th are the longest, the 6th and 7th the shortest. Each joint has 
several hairs. The mentum appears to be tri-articulate, and has a few 
hairs at its tip; the rostral sete are long. On the legs the coxa and femur 
are thick; the tibia, much thinner, is more than twice as long as the 
tarsus; the upper digitules, fig. 19c, are not very long; the lower are 
narrow and about equal to the claw. 
The anal tubercles are inconspicuous; each has a few hairs, of which 
one is longer than the others, and two conical spines. The anal ring has 
six hairs. These details are shown in fig. 194. 
The young insect differs slightly. The antenne have six joints, the 
sixth much longer than any of the others, which are about equal. The 
tibia is shorter than the tarsus. (According to M. Signoret, this character 
affords the means of judging the age of any insect of the group Coccide. 
Whenever the tarsus is longer than the tibia the insect is in an early stage). 
The anal tubercles are somewhat more prominent than in the adult, giving 
the insect an appearance of having been cut off square at the end. 
I have not the male of this species. 
Dactylopius glaucus, sp. nov. (?) 
This species differs from the last in its colour, which is light green, and 
in having a less regularly oval line ; the abdominal region runs more to a 
point. The antenna, feet, ete., resemble those of D. calceolarie. My speci- 
mens are from Pittosporum enyenioides and Rubus australis. 
I have one specimen which appears to me to be a male in an early stage. 
In outline it resemb:es a female, but the rostrum is absent, and at each side 
there is a protuberance which seems to me to be the rudiments of the wings. 
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