SCALE-INSECTS. 55 
Male puparium white, elongated, rather oval ; very slightly 
carinated above ; on the under-side are two longitudinal keels. 
Adult female yellow, elongated, segmented ; the abdominal 
segments somewhat deep. Abdomen ending with a median 
depression ; terminal lobes inconspicuous (absent ?). Five groups 
of spimnerets: uppermost group, six to ten orifices; the rest, 
ten to fifteen. 
Adult male reddish in colour. Antenne hairy, 10-jointed, 
the first two joints very short. Feet normal, with four long, 
fine digitules. At the base of the abdominal spike is a some- 
what large tubercle. Haltere of normal form, but the terminal 
seta is very long, four times as long as the thick basal portion, 
and has no terminal knob. Thoracic band conspicuous. The 
thorax is somewhat long, so that there is a considerable distance 
between the first and second pairs of legs. 
Habitat—On Coprosma, Rubus, Asplenium, Pellea, Riccarton 
Bush and North Kowai River, Canterbury ; Auckland. 
The female puparium resembles that of, C. aspidistre 
(Signoret) and C. populi (Barensprung), but the abdominal seg- 
ment of the female differs from both. 
23. Cuionaspis pysoxyLi, Maskell. 
NZ. Trans., Vol. XVII, 1884, p. 22. 
(Plate VI., Fig. 3.) 
Female puparium thin, flattish, pyriform, winte in colour, 
with a faint pink tinge when the egg-mass beneath shows 
through it; length, about ;4,m. ‘The second pellicle is com- 
paratively large. 
Male puparium white, narrow, carimated ; length, about 3);in. 
The insect affects principally the leaves of the plant, and the 
puparia are usually clustered thickly along the midrib. 
Adult female yellowish-red, elongated, segmented ; but not 
very deeply. Abdomen ending in a broken curve, with many 
curvilinear incisions. There are fourteen lobes, of which the 
two median are the largest; separated from them by a spine on 
each side are two others rather smaller ; then another spine and 
a short open space; and then three smaller lobes and another 
spine ; another space, and then a single small lobe, followed by a 
spine. Five groups of spinnerets: lower pair with twelve to 
fourteen orifices ; upper pair with seven to ten; uppermost group, 
four to six. A few spiny hairs are on the edge of the abdomen. 
