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25. Poxraspis mepra, Maskell. 
N.Z. Trans., Vol. XII., 1879, p. 293. 
(Plate VI., Fig. 5.) 
Female puparium white, elongated, pyriform, slightly con- 
vex ; length, about jin. 
Male puparium elongated, narrow, white, doubtfully cari- 
nated. 
Adult female elongated, segmented ; greenish-white ; length, 
about s4in. Rudimentary antenne visible. Abdomen ending 
with a median depression, and inconspicuous lobes; several 
scattered spiny hairs. Eight groups of spinnerets: four, con- 
taining each from twenty to thirty orifices, are placed in oppo- 
site pairs, the fifth, with four to six orifices, being between the 
upper pair; above these, three other groups form an arch, the 
two outer ones having eight to ten openings, the middle one 
three to five. Many single spinnerets. 
Adult male of a bright scarlet or deep-orange colour. The 
antenne, covered with longish hairs, have ten joints, the first 
two very short and thick; the next five long, equal, and cylin- 
drical; the eighth and ninth somewhat shorter; the tenth 
fusiform, and as long as the seventh. The legs are rather long ; 
the femur thick, the tibia more slender, broadening towards the 
tarsus, which is about one-third as long as the tibia, and narrows 
sharply down to the claw. Both tarsus and tibia are hairy. The 
digitules are fine hairs. 
Habitat—On Veronica, sp., and Leucopogon Fraseri, North 
Kowai River, Canterbury; on Cyathodes acerosa, Wellington ; 
on ferns, Napier. 
Genus: FIORINIA, ‘Targioni-Tozzetti. Usnteria, Comstock ; 
2nd Entom. Rep., Cornell Univ., 1883, p. 110. 
Female puparium elongated; first pellicle small, at one 
end ; second pellicle very large, entirely covering the insect, and 
almost extending to the edges of the puparium. 
Male puparium elongated ; smaller and narrower than that 
of the female ; sometimes carinated; pellicle at one end. 
Mr. Comstock proposes the name ‘ Uhleria” for this genus, 
because Professor Targioni, establishing his genus for the species 
to which he originally gave the name of Diaspis fiorinie, 
changed at the same time the specific name to “ pellucida.” 
