76 INSECTS NOXIOUS TO AGRICULTURE. 
he female in the second stage is also convex above, flat 
below, but is less thick than the adult, and has not the corruga- 
tions. General form elongated-oval; the abdominal lobes are 
not, as usual, smooth, but approach by irregularity the anal 
tubercles of the Coccidine, and like them bear a few hairs. 
The anal ring has eight hairs. Antenne of six joints. Feet 
normal ; digitules asin adult. On the skin are several scattered, 
circular, very minute spinnerets ; the stigmatic spines are long 
and conspicuous, and along the edge runs a row of conical hairs 
or spines. 
Adult male yellowish-green in colour, the body slender and 
tapering. From the abdomen spring two very long white cottony 
setee, one on each side of the spike, which is straight and short. 
Antenne of ten joints; the first two short, the rest long, thin, 
and hairy. Of these, the seventh, eighth, and ninth are the 
shortest; on the last joint three long knobbed hairs. Feet 
slender, hairy ; digitules normal. Thoracic band inconspicuous. 
Habitat—On Leptospermum scoparium (manuka); Christ- 
church, Kaiapoi, Wellington, Auckland. It affects the twigs of 
the plant, and not the leaves. 
4d. Inauista ornata, Maskell. 
NZ. Trans., Vol: XVI, S845 ip. 27. 
(Plate X., Fig. 1.) 
Test of adult female reddish-brown, the base more or less 
oval, the rest elevated in a cone and ending in a prominence 
standing up like a more or less sharp horn; sometimes there 
are two of these horns. The test is formed of a number of 
polygonal segments, each slightly elevated, and all are marked 
with the radiating strie peculiar to the genus. There is a fringe 
of sharply triangular segments, also striated. Average length 
of test, about din., but specimens attain a length of ¢in.; height, 
about +1,in. 
Test of second stage generally resembling that of the adult, 
but smaller and less conical, and more tinged with green ; and 
at the edge a number of short spinnerct tubes may be seen 
protruding. 
