42 INSECTS NOXIOUS TO AGRICULTURE. 
somewhat prominent 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 four to six orifices; upper, with six toten. 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 spin- 
nerets. 
Adult male of normal form, with antennze of ten joints, of 
which the seventh, eighth, and ninth are the longest. The 
haltere has a somewhat long peduncle. The abdominal spike is 
rather long, and springs from a large tubercle. 
Habitat—On Carpodetus serratus and Vitex littoralis (puriri), 
Wellington. 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 differs 
in the abdominal lobes of the female and in the antenne of the 
male; its male puparium is also much longer, and that of the 
female more convex, than in that species. 
5. Asprptorus coccrnrus, Gennadius.* 
Aspidiotus aurantii, Maskell. 
N.Z. Trans., Vol. XI., 1878, p. 199. 
Aspidiotus citri, Comstock; Canadian Entom., Vol. XIILI., 
Dao 
(Plate IV., Fig. 3.) 
Female puparium really dirty-white, but seeming yellowish- 
brown, from the colour of the insect beneath ; sometimes dark- 
brown ; circular, flat; diameter, about ;41n. 
Male puparium much smaller, rather oval. 
Adult female yellow, becoming brown at last; peg - top 
shaped, but the abdominal segment is comparatively so small 
and is so much overlapped by the others that the msect looks 
almost globular; length, about in. Abdomen ending in six 
lobes (of which the two median are the largest), and several scaly 
hairs. No groups of spinnerets. 
* The author has not been able to find the original description of Genna- 
dius, which appears to have been contained in a report to the Minister for 
Agriculture in Greece. Dr. Signoret states that there is a reference to it in 
‘“* Risso, Histoire Naturelle des Oranges,” Vol. I., p. 220. 
