80 INSECTS NOXIOUS TO AGRICULTURE. 
lower digitules is larger than the other. Length of insect, 
about =)51n. 
Male unknown. 
Habitat in New Zealand—On plants in greenhouses; Christ- 
church, Wellington. In Europe, on Ficus, in hothouses. 
This insect belongs to Signoret’s fifth series. 
44, LecaNtuM HEMIsPHERICUM, Targioni-Tozzetti, Stud. sul 
Coccin., 27. 
Chermes filicum, Boisduval (1867), 336; Targioni, Catal., 
1868, 38, 17. 
Maskell, N.Z. Trans., Vol. XVII, 1884, p. 29. 
(Plate XI., Fig. 2.) 
Adult female hemispherical, with broad flattened edges ; 
reddish-brown ; diameter, about jin. Skin regularly marked 
with oval perforations; no keels. Antenne of eight joints. 
Feet normal, thm. Anal ring with eight hairs. 
Male unknown. 
Habitat in New Zealand—On Camellia, Hutt Valley, Wel- 
lington; in Europe, on Dracena australis; in America, on 
various greenhouse plants (Comstock). | Query—Does the 
European habitat denote an Australian origin ? 
This insect belongs to Signoret’s fourth series. 
45, Lecanrum HESPERIDUM, Linneus. 
L. hesperidum, Linnzus, Syst. Nat., 1735, II., 739, 1; 
Faun. Suec., 1746, 1015. 
Coccus hesperidum, various authors. 
Calymnatus hesperidum, Costa, Nuoy. Ossery., 1835 ? 
Calypticus hesperidum, Costa, Faun. Ins. Nap. Gall-insect., 
1837, 8, 1; Lubbock, Proc. Roy. Soc., IX., 480; Beck, 
Trans. Roy. Micr. Soc., 1861, 47, &c. 
Maskell, N.Z. Trans., Vol. XI., 1878, p. 205. 
The Holly and Ivy Scale. 
(Plate XI., Fig. 3.) 
Adult female naked; yellow, brown, or reddish; flat or 
slightly convex; elongated; skin smooth, sparsely punctate ; 
length averaging ;pin., but specimens reach sometimes Hin. 
Antenne of seven joints; a few hairs on most, but the seventh 
has several. Abdominal cleft and lobes normal. Feet normal. 
On the edge of a body a row of small hairs, not set:closely 
together. Viviparous ; at gestation the under-side becomes con- 
