50 INSECTS NOXIOUS TO AGRICULTURE. 
Male puparium narrower than that of the female, and a good 
deal darker, being sometimes almost black ; length, about z\5in. ; 
not carinated. 
Adult female dark-grey in colour, elongated, segmented. 
Abdomen ending in two median lobes; along the edge several 
deepish curvilinear incisions, between which are some strong 
spines. Five groups of spinnerets: lower pair with fourteen to 
sixteen orifices ; upper pair, twelve to sixteen; uppermost group, 
four to six. 
Adult male unknown. 
Habitat—On Astelia cunninghamii, Wellington. 
16, Myrimaspis teprosperMI, Maskell. 
N.Z. Trans., Vol. XTV., F881, p. 205: 
(Plate V., Fig. 4.) 
Female puparium flat, elongated, irregularly pyritorm, light- 
brown in colour; length, about ;4,in. ‘The secretion forming 
the puparium is mixed with bark-cells of the tree, arranged 
longitudinally. 
Male puparium narrower than that of the female, and darker 
in colour. 
Adult female greyish-green, elongated, segmented ; abdo- 
men ending in six lobes, of which the two median are con- 
spicuous and somewhat large and floriated, the rest very small. 
Five groups of spinnerets: the upper group with about fifteen 
openings ; the others with from twenty-five to thirty-five. Single 
spimnerets none, or very few. 
Adult male unknown. 
Habitat—On Leptospermum scoparium (manuka), Welling- 
ton ; Canterbury; Auckland. The puparia are often numerous 
on the loose scaly bark of the tree. 
17. Myvinasris Mrrrosiperi, Maskell. 
N.Z. Trans., Vol. XII., 1879, p. 293. 
Female puparitum white, pyriform. Female in all stages 
dark-coloured ; in last stage nearly black. General outline 
resembling M. drimydis, but the abdomen is much sharper and 
more pointed, with a finely-serrated edge, ending im three 
minute, pointed lobes, joined by a scaly process. Spinnerets in 
an almost continuous arch, which may be resolved into five 
