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groups ; seventy or eighty openings; several single spinnerets. 
The rudimentary antenne can be made out. 
The young female has an elongated oval outline, little 
corrugated. The feet, digitules, antennz, &c., resemble those of 
M. pomorum. The abdomen is like that of the adult, without 
the groups of spinnerets. 
Male unknown, but puparium smaller and rather darker in 
colour than that of the female. 
Habitat—On Metrosideros robusta (rata), Wellington, and 
probably elsewhere. It is not common. 
18. Myrinaspis pHymMAtTopipis, Maskell. 
N.Z. Trans., Vol. XIT., 1879, p. 292. 
Female puparium flattish, pyriform, dirty-white or brownish ; 
length, about jin. 
Male puparium similar, brown. 
Adult female greyish, elongated, segmented. Rudimentary 
antenn visible. Abdomen ending in two lobes with a median 
depression : several scaly and serrated processes, and some spiny 
hairs. Five groups of spinnerets: uppermost group, six to nine 
orifices; upper side groups, ten te fourteen ; lower pair, fifteen 
to twenty : several single spinneret: 
Male unknown. 
Habitat—On Phymatodes biiiurdieri, Wellington ; Auck- 
land. 
In outward appearance the female resembles M. pomorum, 
but the puparium is quite different, and the abdominal charac- 
ters also differ. 
19. Myrriasprs pomorum, Bouché. 
Aspidiotus pomorum, Bouché; Ent. Zeit. Stett., 185], 
Mah s, ANG. La 
Aspidiotus conchiformis, auctorum ; nec Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 
2,221. 
Aspidiotus pyrus-malus, Kennicott ; 1854, Acad. Science of 
Cleveland. 
Aspidiotus juglandis, Fitch; Ann. Rep., N.Y. State Ag. 
Soc., 1856 ; nec Signoret, loc. cit., 1870, p. 95. 
Aspidiotus falciformis, Barensprung; Journ. d’Alton et 
Burm., 1849. 
