SCALE-INSECTS. 85 
Female of the second stage more or less elliptical, slightly 
convex, brown in colour beneath the thin white felted covering, 
which usually presents a segmented appearance, due to the 
transverse rows of prominent spinnerets. Body covered thickly 
on the dorsal surface with spines, which are subcylindrical, the 
ends rounded, springing from tubercular bases. On the ventral 
surface many smaller spiny hairs. Abdominal cleft normal, the 
lobes large. Mentum probably monomerous; the tip bears 
several hairs. Antenne of six somewhat hairy joints. Feet 
with rather large femora; the lower digitules are fine hairs. 
Anogenital rmg bearing numerous hairs. 
Adult female elliptical, convex, hollow bencath, brown in 
colour, usually affecting the twigs and branches of the plant in 
preference to the leaves. Apparently naked, but on close in- 
spection found to retain at least portions of the thin feited 
covering. Dorsal surface covered with great numbers of spines 
similar to those of the second stage ; ventrai surface with many 
small spiny hairs. Antenne of seven joints. The feet have 
large coxe and femora; the tibia is only about half as long as 
the tarsus ; the lower digitules are only fine hairs. 
Adult male of norma! form of Lecanidine: colour brown. 
On the head are six visual organs: two dorsal eyes, two ventral, 
and two ocelli. Antennze reddish, ten-jomted ; the second joint 
a good deal thicker than the rest, the second, third, and fourth 
jomts the longest; the last three moniliform; all the joints 
hairy. On the five last jomts are several hairs with knobbed 
extremities. Feet slender, hairy; digitules fine hairs. Ab- 
dominal spike short and rather broad. On each side of the 
base of the spike is a tubercle bearing a pair of longish setie ; 
each pair of seteze becomes enclosed in a long white cottony 
thread, and the two threads form conspicuous ‘‘tails,” as is com- 
mon with most males of the Coccid family. | 
Habitat—On Olearia Haastii, Botanical Gardens, Welling- 
ton. This is an alpine plant cultivated in the Gardens, and the 
insect probably came with it from the mountains. 
This species is distinguished from KE. spinosus by the great 
number of spiny spinnerets on the dorsum of the female and by 
the tubular character of the fringe. 
The curious and exceptional character of a tibia shorter than 
the tarsus in the adult female, as observed above, is found only 
in this genus and some Acanthococcide. 
