54 INSECTS NOXIOUS TO AGRICULTURE. 
In the female puparium and in the length of the abdominal 
spike of the male this species resembles M. buat, Bouché (Sig- 
noret, loc. cit., 1868, p. 93), but differs in all other respects. 
Genus: CHIONASPIS, Signoret. 
Female puparium usually white, clongated ; pellicles at one 
end; generally flat. 
Male puparium white, elongated, carinated; pellicle at one 
end. 
Groups of spinnerets, five (in one American species, six) ; 
rarely wanting. 
21. Curionaspis crtri, Comstock; 2nd Rep., Dep. of Entom., 
Cornell Univ., 1883. 
Chionaspis euonymi, Comstock (in part); Ag. Rep., 1880, 
p. 313. 
N-Z: Trans.; Vol XV UL; p. 1884, p: Ze: 
(Plate VI., Fig. 1.) 
Female puparium dirty blackish-brown, with a grey margin ; 
elongated. ‘ There is a central ridge from which the sides slope 
like the roof of a house”’ (Comstock). 
Male puparium white, narrow, carinated. 
Adult female yellowish-white, elongated, segmented. Abdo- 
men ending in six lobes, of which the two median are the 
largest: these two are divergent. Along the edge some spines. 
No groups of spinnerets : a few single ones. 
Adult male unknown. 
Habitat — On oranges sold in the shops, imported from 
Sydney. 
This insect, apparently an importation from America, was 
not observed prior to 1884, and occurs as yet only sparingly, 
mingled with A. coccineus, from which it is easily distin- 
guished by its elongated puparium. 
22. Cutonaspis puBiA, Maskell. 
N.Z., dans, Volo XIV. JiS81, wo, 216. 
(Plate VI., Fig. 2.) 
Female puparium white, flat, elongated, pyriform, very thin ; 
the pellicles rather small; length, about yin. 
