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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 y 1 ^ 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 mucb narrower than that of the female, baving 

 an irregularly rectangular edge with deep curvilinear depressions. It is 

 glassy, white and shining, fiat beneath and elevated above, and marked 

 with numerous horizontal striae. The upper central portion is sometimes 

 fiat, 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- 

 tennae 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 th:ee are 

 knobbed. 



From Brachyglottis repanda and Panax 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. elongatits, mihi : in the row 

 of conical spines round the edge it resembles C.fuscus, described below ; but 

 both of these are otherwise different. 



3. 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 



