120 Transactions. — Zuoloyy. 



chequered, basal half tawuy-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. Antenna 

 finely serrated. 



Length of body, 4'" ; Expanse of wings, 11'"— 1" 1"'. 



Female, — Appears to differ from the male only in size, form of antennae, 

 and absence of abdominal tufts. Antenna; simple, scarcely pubescent. 



Length of body, 4|'". Expanse of wings, 1" V"— 1" 2'". 



Hob. 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. rixata 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. 



Aet V. — Further Notes on Coccidas in New Zealand, with Descriptions of 



neio Species. By W. M. Maskell, F.R.M.S. 



[Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 4th October, 1883.] 



Plates I. and II. 



1st Group.— DIASPIDjE. 



Genus, Aspidiotus, Bouche. 



1. Aspidiotus aurantii, mihi. 



(Trans., vol. xi., p. 199 : vol. xiv., p. 217.) 



This must be abandoned 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 Beport to the Minister 



