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also some scaly but smooth hairs. There are also a few spines. 
Four groups of spinnerets, which are surrounded (according to 
Mr. Comstock, Entom. Report, U.S. Dep. of Agric., 1880, 
Plate XV., Fig. 1) by a fine line, as if enclosed inasac. Many 
single spinnerets. 
In the larva the abdomen ends in four lobes, of which the 
two median are somewhat prominent. 
Adult male yellow or brownish; antenne of ten joints, 
each with several hairs ; feet having the femora somewhat thick, 
the tibize and tarsi flat and slender, the former a little expanded 
at the extremity. 
Habitat—On Coprosma lucida and Corynocarpus levigata 
(Karaka), Wellington. 
A species introduced from Europe, where its favourite habitat 
is Neriuwm oleander ; but it is found on many other plants, and is, 
according to Dr. Signoret, “ the commonest of all the species of 
this genus.” It has not yet spread widely in New Zealand. 
9. Aspiprotus sopHor#, Maskell. 
Neve trans, Vol, XVI., 1883, p: 121. 
Female puparium nearly circular, flat, bluish-grey ; diameter, 
about 541. 
Male puparium oval; length, about s/;in. 
Adult female of the usual peg-top shape, greenish-yellow in 
colour; abdomen ending in two conspicuous median lobes, with 
a number of scaly serrated hairs, as in A. nerii. Five groups of 
spinnerets : uppermost group with four orifices ; the remainder, 
seven or eight. Some specimens show only four groups. 
Adult male unknown. 
Habitat—On Sophora tetraptera (Kowhai), Port Hills, Can- 
terbury. 
Only a few species of Aspidiotus are reported with five 
eroups of spinnerets. The present insect differs from all of 
them in the scaly serrated hairs of the abdomen; none of the 
others has more than a few spines. 
Genus: DIASPIS, Costa. 
Female puparium more or less, but never quite, circular ; 
sometimes flat, but more usually convex ; pellicles more or less 
marginal. 
