68 INSECTS NOXIOUS TO AGRICULTURE. 
conical spines set closely together. Antenne of six somewhat 
confused joimts. Feet normal. 
Adult male unknown. 
Habitat—On Eleocarpus dentatus (hinau), Wellington. 
The large size, black colour, and very conspicuous fringe of 
the adult female test, and the white loose test of the second 
stage, distinguish this species, especially from Ct. fuscus. 
33. Crenocuiron eLonGAtus, Maskell. 
NZ; ‘Trans;, Vol, Xi, 1875, p. 202) 
(Plate VII., Fig. 4.) 
Test of adult female elongated, narrow, convex. Length 
sometimes reaching 4in., width about ;;in. Fringe not always 
conspicuous; the segments quadrate outwardly. Test divided 
into quadrangular divisions. Colour whitish, but often blackened 
by fungoid growths. 
Test of male unknown. 
Adult female filling the test, shrivelling at gestation. Edge 
of the body wavy. Stigmatic spines long and conspicuous. 
Antenne seven-jointed. Feet normal; lower digitules absent (?). 
Adult male unknown. 
Habitat—On Geniostoma hgustrifolium, Auckland ; on Den- 
drobium sp., Hawke’s Bay; on Harina sp., Wellington. 
Kasily recognized by the great length and narrowness of the 
female test. 
34, CrEnocHIToNn FrLAvus, Maskell. 
N.Z. Trans., Vol. XVI., 1883, p. 180; Vol. XVII., 1884, 
p. 26. 
(Plate VII., Fig. 5.) 
Female test golden, waxy, flat beneath, convex above; out- 
line circular or slightly elliptical, with a fringe of broadly tri- 
angular segments round the edge. Apex of the test an irregular 
elongated mass of wax, the remainder divided into two concentric 
series of plates, the inner series pentagonal with sharp angles, 
the outer pentagonal with rounded angles and with the outer 
side forming the base of the segments of the frmge. The inner 
series forms often irregular lumps of wax. Diameter of test 
sometimes reaching jin. The colour is often hidden by black 
fungoid growths. 
