SCALE-INSECTS. 61 
Five groups of spinnerets, the three upper groups almost joined 
im an arch; in the arch, forty to fifty orifices ; in the two lower 
groups, ten to fifteen. 
Adult male, brown. Antenne, ten-joited ; each joimt except 
the first two long and hairy; on the last joint one hair longer 
than the rest, and ending ina knob. Legs, slender ; claw, very 
thin ; digitules, fine hairs. 
Habitat—On Dendrobium, sp., Hedycarya, sp., Hawke’s Bay; 
Phormium tenax, Cordyline australis, <Astelia cunninghami., 
Muhlenbeckia, sp., Wellington ; Canterbury ; Nelson. 
