60 INSECTS NOXIOUS TO AGRICULTURE. 
ous median lobes, with three others, much smaller, on each side. 
From the serrations spring some hairs. There are five groups of 
spinnerets, but the three upper ones, almost or quite conjoined, 
form a nearly-continuous arch, containing forty to fifty orifices ; 
the two lower groups have fifteen to twenty. There are several 
single spinnerets. The adult insect, before gestation, nearly fills 
the space covered by the second pellicle ; after gestation it shrinks 
up into very small compass at the cephalic end of the puparium. 
Adult male unknown. 
Habitat—On Brachyglottis repanda; Panax arboreum, Port 
Hills, Canterbury. 
Differs from the European species, F. pellucida (Targioni), in 
its extremely-minute size, in the serrations of the abdomen, and 
the number of its hairs. Also in F. pellucida the young female 
larva has two tubercles between the antennee, which are not seen 
in FP. minima. 
29. Frorinta stricta, Maskell. 
N.Z. Trans., Vol. XVI., 1883, p. 124; Vol. XVII., 1884, 
p. 24. 
(Plate VI., Fig. 7.) 
Female puparium elongated, narrow, with sides almost 
straight and parallel ; length, about ;1n.; breadth, about =4in. 
Colour of secretion, white, but seeming black, as the second 
pellicle shows through it. First pellicle, black, small, at one end; 
the cephalic portion prolonged im a slghtly-cylindrical form. 
Second pellicle, very long, fillmg the puparium; black; entire 
for most of its length, but at the abdominal extremity cut across 
by transverse divisions forming narrow radiating segments; ex- 
treme edge semicircular, sharply serrated. Texture, horny, hard, 
and strong. 
Male puparium clongated, narrow, like that of the female ; 
length, about ;4,in.; colour white; pellicle, black, at one end ; 
not carinated. 
Some puparia, both male and female, are found slightly 
curved. 
Adult female small, elongated, segmented; length, about 
qoin., shrivelling at gestation. Cephalic portion compressed, 
cylindrical. Abdomen somewhat elongated, ending in a number 
of sharp-pointed, triangular, tooth-like lobes, between which may 
be made out a few (four ?) very minute, roundly-triangular lobes. 
