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Adult male doubtful; very minute and difficult to detect. 
Antenne apparently short and tibiz large. 
Habitat—On Cordyline australis and C. indivisa, Phormium, 
Gahnia, Astelia, Eucalyptus, &c., throughout the islands; but 
the chief habitat seems to be C. australis (the common cabbage- 
tree), on which it is often very abundant. 
This species may at first sight be mistaken for Fiorinia 
stricta, described below, which also infests Cordyline and Phor- 
mium ; but, on inspection, it will be seen that the puparium of 
the Mytilaspis is much whiter, and the pellicles yellow, those of 
F. stricta being black. An examination of the second pellicles. 
of the two species will, of course, at once distinguish them. 
14. Myvinasprs primypis, Maskell. 
IN.Z. Wrans,, Viol. XC; 1878) p. 1196. 
(Plate V., Fig. 3.) 
Female puparium elongated, often straight, sometimes curved + 
colour, dirty-white or brown ; pellicles at one end; length, about 
zyin. 
Male puparium similar, but smaller. 
Adult female dull-red in colour, elongated, not very dis- 
tinctly segmented. Abdomen ending in a number of small 
lobes, of which the four median are the largest; several fine 
nairs between the lobes; no groups of spinnerets, but a very 
great number of single ones, which are scattered on the segments 
as far up as the rostrum. Many of these protrude as short 
thick tubes with serrated or fringed extremities. On the 
cephalic segment are a few spiny hairs and two rudimentary 
antenne. 
Adult male red in colour; antenne of ten joints; tarsi 
somewhat large. Both antenne and feet have numerous hairs. 
Digitules, fine. 
Habitat—On Drimys colorata, Water of Leith, Dunedin, 
from which it has spread to other native plants. 
15. Myvinasprs eprpuytipis, Maskell. 
N.Z. Trans., Vol. XVII., 1884, p. 21. 
(Plate V., Fig. 2.) 
Female puparium flat, pyriform, brown in colour, thin ; 
length, about ;/;in. 
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