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has the extremity of the second pellicle richly floriated, other 
features remaining as above. It has not been thought advisable 
to erect all these varieties into different species. 
The male pupa, in its earlier state, is elongated, segmented, 
and may be mistaken for a female of Mytilaspis drimydis ; but 
differs in its greyish-yellow colour, and also in the form of the 
puparium. 
Habitat—On Atherosperma Nove Zelandie ; Astelia cunning- 
hami; Coprosma, sp. var.; Pittosporum eugenioide, &c.; Wel- 
lington ; Canterbury ; Hawke’s Bay ; Otago; Nelson; Auckland. 
The puparia of this insect are frequently covered by a species 
of torulaceous (?) fungus which spreads over the leaf they are 
on in a thin, brown sheet. 
27. Frorinia GRossuLArr®, Maskell. 
N.Z. Trans., Vol. XVI., 1883, p. 123. 
Female puparium irregularly oval, being formed chiefly by 
the second pellicle, with a narrow edge of fibrous secretion ;. 
length, about 4,1in. 
Adult female elongated ; segmented; the cephalic end slightly 
prolonged into a compressed cylinder. Segments bearing at the 
edge three sharp spies. The edge of the abdominal segment 
is much broken by serrations, and ends in two broadish median 
lobes, with two smaller lobes on each side. Several sharp, long 
spines are set in pairs along the serrated edge. Five groups of 
spinnerets, the three upper forming a continuous arch. Colour 
of insect, dark-grey. 
Adult male and puparium unknown. 
Habitat—On gooseberries, Ambexley, Canterbury. 
A doubtful species. 
28. Frorinra minima, Maskell. 
N.Z. Trans., Vol. XVI., 1883, p. 122. 
Female puparium flat, elongated, oval; length, about ;';1n. 
First pellicle, comparatively large ; the second almost fills the 
puparium. 
Male puparium rather longer than that of the female, but 
much narrower; carinated. 
Adult female elongated ; segmented ; colour, pink. The ab- 
dominal segment somewhat long, the edge broken by a number 
of deepish curvilinear serrations, and ending in two mconspicu- 
