SCALE-INSECTS. 4] 
Female puparium circular, flat, dirty-white, about j);in, in 
diameter. 
Male puparium oval, dirty-white, about s/,in. in length. 
Adult female light-yellow, peg-top shaped ; abdomen ending 
in two somewhat prominent lobes, with scaly hairs and spines. 
Four groups of spinnerets: upper groups with five or six orifices; 
lower groups, three or four. 
Adult male yellow, slightly brown on the thorax; antennie 
of ten joints, all hairy. 
Habitat—On silver-wattle, Nelson. The insect is Enro- 
pean, and found there on Budleia salicina. 
Closely allied to A. nerii, but differing in the lobes and 
spinnerets of the abdomen. 
3. ASPIDIOTUS CAMELLIA, Boisduval. 
Kermes camelliie, Boisduval, Ent. Hort., p. 334, 
Aspidiotus camellia, Signoret, loc. cit., 1869, p. 117. 
Ne 4. Weans. Vol 9. 1878, p. 200; Vol. X VIL, 1884. 
pix. 
(Plate IV., Fig. 2.) 
Female puparium nearly circular, convex, greyish or brown- 
ish in colour, about z4in. in diameter; pellicles often at one 
side. 
Male puparium rather smaller, oval. 
Adult female of normal shape, but somewhat elongated. 
Abdomen ending in two lobes, with a few scattered scaly hairs. 
No groups of spinnerets. ° 
Habitat—On camellias, Christchurch ; on euonymus, weeping 
willow, &c., Wellington. 
Very common in gardens about Wellington : sometimes does 
much damage to euonymus shrubs and hedges. 
4. Asprpiorus carpopetr, Maskell. 
NZ. Srans., Vol, X VIL, 1884, p. 21. 
Female puparium usually light-brown, but varying a little 
with the colour of the bark of the tree ; convex; circular; the 
pellicles in the centre ; some specimens are slightly elongated. 
Average diameter, ;/;in. 
Male puparium narrow, with parallel sides; not carinated ; 
dirty-white or brownish colour; length, about yin. 
Adult female of the normal peg-top shape, the abdomen not 
so much overlapped as usual. Abdomen ending in two median 
