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Group.— DIASPIDiE. 



Genus, Aspidiotus, Bouche. 



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 ahout 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. 

 Figs. 1, 2. 



Female puparium usually light-brown, but varying a little with the 

 colour of the tree ; convex ; circular, the pellicles in the centre : some 

 specimens are slightly elongated. Average diameter T X g- inch. 



Male puparium narrow, with parallel sides ; not carinated ; dirty-white 

 or brownish colour ; length about T x g 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 much 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 antennae 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 Vitex 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 antennas 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 

 y 1 ^ inch. 



