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Adult male very small, brown or yellow in colour. The 
antennee have ten joints: the two first joints are very small, 
round, and smooth; the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth equal in 
length; the seventh, eighth, and ninth half as long; the tenth 
somewhat shorter still, and pointed. All the last eight joints 
show numerous hairs. The thorax is short and thick, the 
thoracic band occupying more than one-half the width; the 
abdomen short, the double spike of some length. The wings are 
oval, about as long as the body. ‘The legs are hairy, femora 
‘thick, tibiz longer, thicker at the end next the tarsus than at 
the other end; tarsi broad at the top, tapering gradually down 
to the usual single claw. The hairs on the femora are much 
fewer than those on the tibi and tarsi. 
Habitat—On oranges and lemons in shops, very abundant, 
often several hundreds .on a single fruit ; on orange- and lemon- 
trees, Governor’s Bay, Canterbury ; and Auckland. 
This insect is European, and has been introduced here from 
Australia. It is exceedingly destructive to orange and lemon 
groves in America and Australia. Mr. Comstock (Report of the 
Entomologist, U.S. Dep. of Agric., 1881, p. 295) records an in- 
stance where a grove of thirty-three acres, which in 1872 pro- 
duced a rental of £1,800, could fetch in 1878 only £120, on 
account of the ravages of this insect. 
Orange- and lemon-growers in the north of New Zealand 
should beware of this pest. It is scarcely likely that it should 
be harmless here when it is so destructive elsewhere. 
The remedies most likely to be efficacious have been men- 
tioned in the introductory chapters of this work. 
6. Asprprorus pysoxyii1, Maskell. 
INA: Trans., Vol. XL, 1375; p. 198. 
Female puparium circular, somewhat convex, brown in 
colour ; diameter, about tin. 
Male puparium smailer, oval, brown. 
Adult female bright-yellow, corrugated, the corrugations 
overlapping the abdommal region, which is comparatively small. 
There are four groups of spinnerets, the upper pair with ten 
openings, the lower with nine, many scattered oval and oblong 
spinnerets. The abdomen ends in six lobes, of which only the 
two median are conspicuous ; between the lobes fine serrated 
hairs. The abdomen is very velvety. 
