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near the head, of the female, and the arrangement of the 
male puparia above mentioned, sufficiently distinguish this 
species. 
ll. Drasris ros, Sandberg. 
Aspidiotus rose, Sandberg; Abhand., priv. Boh., No. 6, 
Dp. olF. 
Diaspis rose, Signoret, loc. cit., 1869, p. 441. 
NZ. ‘Trans., Vol, X1., 1878, p. 201. 
(Plate IV., Fig. 6.) 
Female puparium nearly circular, white, often aggregated in 
masses ; diameter, about ;4in. Pellicles, marginal. 
Male puparium white, clongated, carinated ; length, about 
gol. 
Adult female deep-red in colour, elongated, the body deeply 
segmented. Cephalic region very large, smooth. On each 
segment of the body several spiny hairs. Abdomen ending in 
two conspicuous lobes with a depression between them, and some 
spiny hairs. Five groups of spinnerets, but the lateral groups 
are almost continuous; uppermost group with about twenty 
orifices ; in the lateral groups, fifty to sixty orifices. No single 
spinnerets. 
Adult male orange-red in colour; antennz ten-jointed, 
with several hairs on all but the first two joints; feet slender, 
hairy ; digitules, fine hairs. The spike is somewhat long. 
Habitat — On rose-trees, Governor’s Bay, Canterbury— 
Napier. 
A European species, stated by Mr. Comstock to attack, in 
America, blackberries and raspberries, besides the rose. 
The deep-red colour and abnormally-large cephalic segment 
of this imsect distinguish it from all others. 
12. Diaspis santatt, Maskell. 
INVZ:. Trans: Vol; XV 1.,,1888,: ps 122, 
(Plate IV., Fig, 7.) 
Female puparium yellowish-grey in colour, sometimes with a 
greenish tinge; outline oval; very convex ; pellicles at one end, 
black, inconspicuous ; length of puparium, about ;';in. 
Male puparium white, clongated, carinated ; pellicle, black ; 
length, about j!in. 
