SCALE-INSECTS. 81. 
cave, forming a shelter for the young; and this cavity is often 
of a blood-red colour. On the under-side may be seen sometimes 
four cottony trails starting from the region of the four stigmata. 
Young larva reddish-brown ; oval, flat ; antenne of six joints. 
trom the abdominal lobes spring two long sete 
Male unknown. 
Habitat in New Zealand—Everywhere, on ivy, holly, camellia, 
orange, laurel, myrtle, box, and many other plants out of doors 
or in greenhouses. In Europe, chiefly on ivy and oranges, but 
frequently on other plants. In America on many plants. 
This is the commonest of the Lecanide in this country ; it 
may be distinguished from ZL. mori (below) by its flatness and 
sparse punctuation, 
This insect belongs to Signoret’s first series. 
46. LecaniuM Hipernacutorum, Targioni-Tozzetti, Catal. (1868), 
Oo 
Chermes hibernaculorum, Boisduval, Ent. Hort., 1867, 337. 
Maskell, N.Z. Trans., Vol. XI., 1878, p. 207. 
Adult female nearly globular; naked; reddish - brown ; 
diameter about din.; at gestation the body becomes simply an 
inverted bag covering the eggs and young. ‘The insect appears 
to be partly oviparous, partly viviparous. Antenne of eight 
joints. Feet normal. Skin pretty regularly marked with oval 
perforations, 
Male unknown. 
Habitat in New Zealand—On various greenhouse plants, 
Christchurch. In Europe on Brevia, Phajus, &c. 
The insect belongs to Signoret’s fourth series, and may 
perhaps be only a large variety of L. hemisphericum. 
47. Lecanrum macuLatum, Signoret, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de 
France, 1873, p. 400. 
Maskell, N.Z. Trans., Vol. XI, 1878, p. 207. 
Adult female naked; flat, elongated; dorsal skin marked 
with a median row of rather large oval spots reaching from the 
abdominal cleft to the region of the rostrum. Length, about 
in. Colour yellowish-brown. Antennz of seven joints. leet 
normal, 
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