44 INSECTS NOXIOUS TO AGRICULTURE. 
Adult male unknown. 
Habitat—On Dysoxylon spectabile, Wellington. 
Allied to A. atherosperme, but differing in the abdominal 
lobes and spinnerets. 
7. AspIpIOTUS EPIDENDRI, Bouché. 
Chermes epidendri, Boisduval ; Ent. Hort., 1867, p. 339. 
Aspidiotus epidendri, Signoret, loc. cit., 1869, p. 121. 
INVA: “rans, Voll XO, 18735 p, oz, 
Female puparium circular, flat, dirty-white or brownish ; 
cuameter, about 4,in. 
Male puparium elongated, the sides parallel. 
Adult female greenish yellow, peg-top shaped. Abdomen 
ending in several lobes, of which only the two median are con- 
spicuous ; between the lobes several serrated scaly hairs, and some 
spies. Four groups of spimnerets: upper groups, eight to ten 
orifices ; lower groups, six to eight: many single spinnerets. 
Adult male somewhat long, yellowish in colour; antenne 
of ten joints; feet having somewhat thick femora, the tibic 
and tarsi slender; all the jomts hairy. The abdominal spike, 
or sheath of the penis, is rather long, and the tubercle at its 
base is large. 
Habitat—On palms and orchids in hothouses, passim; on 
wattle, rarely, Christchurch. 
This is a European insect, affecting hothouse plants, and 
scarcely likely to do damage out-of-doors. It is closely allied 
to A. nerit. 
8. Aspiprotus NERII, Bouché; Schadl. Gart. Ins., 1833, 52. 
Diaspis Bouchei, Targioni-Tozzetti; ‘Studie sulle Cocci- 
neghe,” 1867. 
Aspidiotus Bouchet, Targioni; Catal., 1868, 45, 1. 
INVA. rans., Vol, XPV; 188i, ps 217. 
(Plate IV., Fig. 4.) 
Female puparium circular, flat, white or greyish ; diameter, 
about ;1,in. 
Male puparium oval, white ; about 5!:in. in length. 
Adult female yellow, peg-top shaped, but almost globular. 
Abdomen ending in six lobes, of which the two median are the 
largest. Between and a little beyond the lobes are a number of 
sealy serrated hairs, some of which exhibit serrated extremities ; 
