78 INSECTS NOXIOUS TO AGRICULTURE. 
42, InenistaA pareLia, Maskell. 
N.Z. Trans., Vol. X1., 1878; p: 218; Vol. XIV. 183i, 
p. 219. 
(Plate X., Fig. 2.) 
Test of adult female conical or limpet-shaped, white, glassy, 
slightly elongated, striated with rows of air-cells radiating from 
the apex, and increasing in size to the edge. Length of test, 
about zyin.; height, about ~,in. The edge is usually very 
wavy. 
Test of male similar, but a little smaller and more elongated. 
Adult female filling the test, shrivelling at gestation. Colour 
greenish-yellow. Edge wavy, corresponding to the curves of 
the test. Antennz very short, six-jomted; on the last three 
joints some hairs. Feet normal; upper digitules very long, 
lower pair narrow. On the edge of the body is a row of spines, 
of which each alternate one is conical, the remainder club- 
shaped; the edge seems double or ribbon-like, and inside it is a 
row of spinnerets, beyond which is a narrow line of short regu- 
lar curves. Abdominal cleft wide and circular above, the ex- 
tremities almost meeting. Anal ring with eight long hairs. 
Female of second stage flattish, elongated, wavy-edged ; 
not exhibiting alternate conical and clavate spines. 
Young larva naked, flat, active; round the edge a row of 
clavate spines, but no conical spines. Length, about =Gin. 
Adult male greenish-yellow; length, ;4in. Antenne of 
ten joints, all except the first bearing hairs. Foot normal ; 
digitules fine hairs. Abdominal spike about half the length 
of the abdomen, with two long white sete springing from the 
basal tubercle. 
Habitat—On Coprosma lucida, Riccarton Bush, Christchurch; 
Drimys colorata, (plentifully) on hill above Lyttelton ; Azhero- 
sperma, Wellington. 
A very pretty little species, clearly distinguished by the form 
of the test and the alternate spines of the adult female. 
