Maskell. — On New Zealand CoccidaB. 295 



rounded by a thick envelope of white cotton, in which it deposits the eggs, 

 which are oval and brick-red in coloiu'. 



The antennae, fig. 9, spring from the lower side of the head and point 

 downward ; they have eleven joints, tapering from the root to the tip. 

 They are all pretty nearly equal in length, bvit the fifth may be the shortest; 

 the last joint is rounded. All the joints have several longish hairs, those 

 on the last including some longer and thicker than the others. 



The anterior pair of feet are placed somewhat forward, near the base of 

 the antennae, and the next two pairs are not widely separated from them, so 

 that the abdominal region is equal in length to, if not somewhat longer 

 than, the thoracic and cephalic portion. The legs, fig. 8, are black, rather 

 short. The coxa is broad, the femur thick and strong, the tibia more 

 slender, but thickened at the end tov/ard the tarsus. This last is about half as 

 long as the tibia, and tapers to the claw. I saw no digitules, but there is a 

 short stiff bristle at each side of the root of the claw. Each joint of the 

 legs has some hairs ; the tibia and tarsus have each, on their inner edge, a 

 fringe of strong hairs. The trochanters are excessively developed and bear 

 a few hau's, of which one is very much longer than the rest. 



As I have stated, there is no trace of a rostrum, mentum, or buccal 

 set^, and the only sign of a mouth which I can detect is a minute orifice 

 situate in a deep depression between the second pair of legs. Indeed, it is 

 not without difficulty that one can discover any sign of a mouth. After 

 maceration in potash and pressure on a glass slide I have noticed a ring 

 surrounding this orifice of somewhat thicker substance than the rest of the 

 skin, and I observed that all round there seemed to be convergmg masses of 

 muscular tissue ; it may be that these, in the act of feeding, are protruded, 

 so as to press the orifice as a sucker on the plant, being withdrawn again at 

 will. 



The eyes are very minute, and are so placed in small hollows just behind 

 the base of the antennae that it is not easy to discover them. They are 

 tubercular, slightly protruding, and appear to show a central orifice. They 

 are not, I believe, facetted. 



There are no anal tubercles, as in the Coccidse proper, and the anus is 

 only an oval opening in the last fold of the body without any ring or long 

 hairs. In the interior of the abdomen, near the anal orifice, is found a 

 small organ which I take to be the oviduct, consisting apparently of a double 

 tube, fig. 10 ; a ring of recurved spines surrounds the end of each portion, 

 and at the tip are some long hairs. In one specimen also, I have found 

 what I suppose to be the ovary, a long elliptical sac on a stem which ex- 

 tends toward the base of the oviduct, and seemingly full of eggs. 



The body generally is flat underneath, rounded above ; the corrugations 

 generally smooth, but in some places there appear hard protruding lumps 



