MaskELL.—ÓOn New Zealand Coccide. 21 
Group.—DIASPIDA. 
Genus, Aspidiotus, Bouché. 
1. Aspidiotus camellia, Boisduval. 
In my paper of 1878 (Trans. vol. xi., p. 200), I reported this insect as 
attacking camellias in greenhouses. I find that it has since spread out of 
doors, and that it is common about Wellington on Euonymus, weeping 
willow, and other. garden trees and shrubs. Its whitish or grey scales cover 
the bark in great numbers. 
Aspidiotus carpodeti, sp. nov. 
Ho Nigs. 1, 9 
Female puparium usually light-brown, but varying & little with the 
colour of the tree; convex; circular, the pellicles in the centre: some 
specimens are slightly elongated. Average diameter 7s inch. 
Male puparium narrow, with parallel sides ; not carinated ; dirty-white 
or brownish colour ; length about 4*; inch. 
Adult female of the normal peg-top shape, the abdomen not so much 
overlapped as usual. Abdomen ending in two median, somewhat pro- 
minent, lobes, with two others mueh smaller not in close proximity ; edge 
of the body jagged with curvilinear incisions, amongst which and between 
the lobes are a number of serrated pointed hairs as in A. nerii, Four 
groups of spinnerets : lower pair with 4-6 orifices, upper with 6-10. These 
groups seem surrounded by a narrow line as if enclosed in a chamber: the 
same appearance is presented (according to a figure of Mr. Comstock’s) in 
A. nerii. There are many single spinnerets. 
The adult male is of normal form, with antenn: of ten joints of which 
the seventh, eighth, and ninth are the longest. The haltere (fig. 2) has a 
somewhat long peduncle. The abdominal spike is rather long, and springs 
from a large tubercle. 
On Carpodetus serratus and Vitew littoralis (puriri), but I think my speci- 
mens on the latter tree had only spread from the former. The puparia are 
so like in colour to the bark that it is difficult to detect them. 
This insect is evidently closely allied to A. nerii, but seems to differ in 
the abdominal lobes of the female and in the antenna of the male; its male 
puparium is also much longer, and that of the female more convex than in 
that species. 
Genus, Mytilaspis, Targioni-Tozzetti. 
1. Mytilaspis epiphytidis, sp. nov. 
Fig. 3. 
Female puparium flat, pyriform, brown in colour, thin; length about 
33 inch. 
