58 INSECTS NOXIOUS TO AGRICULTURE. 
This, Mr. Comstock says, necessitates now an entirely new 
generic name. 
Targioni’s nomenclature has been followed here, as likely to 
lead to less confusion. 
26. Frorinra asteL1®, Maskell. 
Diaspis gigas, Maskell. 
NZ, Drang, Vol, Bul, 1873, p. 2013. Vol. IY., Ween, 
p. 217; Vol. XVII., 1884, p. 24. 
Uhleria gigas, Comstock ; 2nd Entom. Rep., Cornell Univ., 
18835 x 
(Plate VI., Fig. 6.) 
Female puparium elongated, flat, roughly pyriform or ovate, 
thin; the secretion is yellowish-brown or dirty-white, but is 
scarcely noticeable, on account of the second pellicle ; length 
variable, from jyin. to Jin.; breadth, about ;4in. First 
pellicle small, at one end. Second pellicle, very large, almost 
fillmg the puparium, roughly pyriform; abdominal region seg- 
mented; cephalic region large, oval; abdominal segments 
tapering, exhibiting at the extremity either minute serrations, 
floriated lobes, or tusk-like lobes, or a smooth curve; the first 
abdominal segment sometimes produced into roundly-triangular 
lobes. 
Male puparium flattish, elongated; length, from 7; in. to 
din. ; white, thin; roughly pyriform, but narrower than that of 
the female; central portion slightly convex, seeming on the 
underside to have two keels ; not carinated above. 
Adult female yellow or brown; segmented; at first elon- 
gated, the cephalic region comparatively large, but during 
gestation shrinking up until the msect assumes the form of 
Aspidiotus. Abdomen ending in a minutely-serrated edge, with 
several small simple lobes, between which are longish spiny 
hairs. Spinnerets in an almost continuous arch, containing 
seventy to a hundred orifices; several single spinnerets. 
Adult male yellow, slender. Antenne, ten-jointed, as long 
as the body; each joint except the two first long and hairy ; 
the last jomt fusiform. Veet, long and slender ; digitules, fine 
hairs. Abdominal spike, slender, not very long, springing from 
a small tubercular base. 
This is a variable insect in size, colour, edge of abdomen, 
and spinnerets. On the bark of Pittosporwmn eugenioide a variety 
