40 INSECTS NOXIOUS TO AGRICULTURE. 
Female puparium elongated; male pu- 
parium similar but smaller. Abdomen of 
female fringed LEvCASPIS. 
Female puparium double, the scales super- 
imposed, first pellicle in the centre of the upper 
scale ; male puparium clongated, not carimated AoNIDIA. 
Female puparium completely enclosing the 
insect ; male puparium elongated, not carinated TarGiontia. 
Genus: ASPIDIOTUS, Bouché. 
Female puparium varying in colour; circular in outline, 
usually flat, sometimes rather convex; pellicles usually in the 
centre. 
Male puparium rather longer than that of the female, the 
pellicle at one end; not carinated above. 
Groups of spinnerets usually four, sometimes five, and in 
one American species (A. sabalis, Comstock) six; or, m a few 
cases, altogether wanting. 
Adult females usually peg-top shaped. 
]1. AsprpioruUs ATHEROSPERM#, Maskell. 
INCZ, Wrans, Vol: Xal., 1878, p. 9s: 
(Plate IV., Fig. 1.) 
Female puparium circular, flat, brown ; diameter, about ;in. 
The pellicles in the centre form sometimes a sort of boss or 
protuberance, of lighter colour than the rest. 
Male puparium oval, flat, brownish, about =/;in. in length. 
Adult female light-yellow in colour, of the usual peg-top 
shape of the genus; length, about ;4im.; corrugated—the 
last abdominal section, being very small, is much overlapped by 
the rest. [our groups of spinnerets, upper pair with fifteen 
orifices ; lower pair, nine or ten. Abdomen terminating in several 
lobes, of which the four median are the largest; between the 
lobes scaly serrated hairs. 
Adult male unknown. 
Habitat—On Atherosperma Nove Zelandie, Wellington ; 
Hawke’s Bay. 
2." ASPIDIOTUS BUDLEIA, Signoret. 
Ann. de la Soc. Entom. de France, 1868, p. 115. 
N.Z. Trans;, Vol. XL, 1878, p.-198: 
