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Young insect normal. 
Adult male yellowish-red in colour, about };in. in length, 
exclusive of the wings. General form normal. Antenne long, 
with ten jomts, all long and equal, except the two first, which 
are very short: all the joints have several hairs. Legs normal, 
but the tibize are very long and slender, and only a little thick- 
ened at the tip; tarsi somewhat thick; digitules fine hairs. 
Abdominal spike long, and very slightly curved. 
Habitat—On Plagianthus, Cyathea, &c.; Wawke’s Bay. 
This msect resembles, to the naked eye, somewhat nearly 
Ctenochiton perforatus, but the female differs in the absence of 
the curious perforations in the test of that species, and in the 
shorter and thicker antenne, with also more long hairs on the 
last joint. The test of the male is also different. 
32. Crenocuiton rLmocarpi, Maskell. 
N.Z. Trans., Vol. XVII., 1884, p. 26. 
(Plate VII., Fig. 3.) 
Test of adult female oval, nearly circular, black in colour, 
divided into hexagonal and pentagonal segments which are not 
conspicuous, and of which the median series forms a very 
slightly elevated ridge somewhat lighter in colour. The test is 
only slightly convex. The fringe is very long and conspicuous, 
the segments toothlike. Diameter of test, exclusive of the 
fringe, reaches 4in. 
Test of male unknown. 
Test of second stage of female white, waxy, not homogene- 
ous, but built up of a number of loosely-aggregated tubuliform 
plates, somewhat resembling those of the genus Orthezia, Bosc. 
The fringe of this test is longer than in that of the adult, the 
teeth curling in different ways. Length of test and fringe, 
sometimes #in. 
The adult female fills the test, shrivelling at gestation. 
Colour black. Antennze somewhat long, of seven joints; a few 
hairs on the last joint. Foot normal; upper digitules strong 
and thick, lower pair very broad. On the skin are a number 
of large oval spots which appear to be the orifices of spinneret 
tubes. 
Female of the second stage wanting the usual wavy edge of 
the genus. Round the edge of the body is a row of sharp 
