56 INSECTS NOXIOUS TO AGRICULTURE. 
Adult male unknown. 
Habitat—On Dysoxylon spectabile (Kohe-kohe) , Wellington ; 
Hawke’s Bay; Auckland. 
The large white puparia of this insect do much to spoil the 
appearance of Dysoxylon, one of the most showy-leafed plants in 
New Zealand. 
24. Curonaspis minor, Maskell. 
N.Z. Trans., Vol. XVII., 1884, p. 33. 
(Plate VIL., Fig. 4.) 
Female puparium white, small, not more than jin. in 
length, usually less; it is narrower and less pyriform than is 
usual in the genus, and is often bent in the middle; pellicles 
yellow. 
Male puparium white, narrow, elongated, carinated, about 
qijin. in length. 
Adult female elongated; segmented, but not deeply; 
colour, dark-brown. Abdomen ending in six small lobes, of 
which the two median—the largest—are closely contiguous. 
Between them and the next pair is a spine; then beyond the 
second pair another spine, a space, and a third pair of very small 
lobes ; after a long space there is another spine. Five groups of 
spinnerets: uppermost group with twelve to fourteen orifices ; 
upper pair, fourteen to seventeen; lower pair, eighteen to 
twenty-four : many single spimnerets. 
Adult male not known. 
Habitat—On Parsonsia, Hawke’s Bay ; on Rhipogonum scan- 
dens (supplejack), Wellington; Canterbury ; Otago. 
The small puparia and the contiguous abdominal lobes of 
the female distinguish this species. 
Genus: POMIASPIS, Maskell; N.Z. Trans., Vol. XII.) 1679; 
Deeoo. 
Female puparia elongated; pellicles at one end. Male 
puparia narrower, elongated, pellicle at one end. Female with 
more than five groups of spinnerets ; abdomen without fringe. 
In the kindred genus, Leucaspis, Targioni-Tozzetti (Signoret, 
loc. cit., 1868, p. 101), the abdomen has a continuous fringe of 
long spines, and the groups of spinnerets vary in number from 
five to eight. 
