SCALE-INSECTS. TS 
38. CrenocHtton prprerts, Maskell. 
N.Z. Trans., Vol. XIV., 1881, p. 218; Vol. XVII., 1884, 
p. 20. 
(Plate VIII., Fig. 3.) 
Test of adult female circular, convex, regularly tessellated in 
hexagonal segments ; fringe not very regular, sometimes almost 
or quite absent; waxy, somewhat thick ; diameter, about sin. 
Colour variable; outer parts white, yellow, or greenish-white, 
central segments purplish. 
Test of second stage of female waxy, very thin, flat, with 
fringe of broadly triangular segments: no air-cells. Length, 
about 3,in. 
Test of male elongated, convex, glassy, segmented. Length, 
about sin. Slightly coloured like that of the female. 
Adult female filling the test. Colour corresponding with that 
of the test. At gestation the under-side becomes hollow, and 
the young are sheltered beneath it for awhile. Antenne seven- 
joimted; on the last joint several hairs. Feet normal; lower 
digitules rather broad. Round the dorsal surface, half-way 
between the centre and the edge, is a row of swellings* or 
tubercles. 
Female of second stage elongated, the cephalic portion 
narrower than the abdomen; flat, thin; edge wavy; stigmatic 
spines rather stout; a few small spines on the edge. Antenne 
six-jointed ; feet normal. 
Young insect of normal form, but with numerous minute 
wrinkles on the edge of the body. 
Adult male greenish-yellow; antenne nine-jointed. Foot 
normal, with somewhat thick tarsus. Penis ending in a round, 
somewhat large knob. 
Habitat—On Piper eacelsum (kawakawa) ; Auckland, Hawke’s 
Bay, Wellington. 
The regularly-circular form and coloured segments of the 
female test, and the tubercles of the dorsum, distinguish this 
species. 
* Possibly spiracular. 
