92 INSECTS NOXIOUS TO AGRICULTURE. 
colour partly green, partly yellow. Round the edge a fringe of 
long white glassy tubes in double row, one row over the other. 
Average length, exclusive of fringe, about =g1n. 
Test of male unknown. 
Adult female filling the test, shrivelling at gestation. An- 
tenne absent, but represented by circular rings, each bearing 
four hairs. Feet absent. Anal tubercles small, setiferous. 
Anogenital ring inconspicuous, with six fine short hairs. Mentum 
uni-articulate ; rostral sete short. Round the edge of the body 
a row of figure-of-8 spinneret orifices ; on the dorsal surface many 
circular spinnerets and a number of protruding tubes. 
Female of second stage elongated, flattish ; colour, reddish- 
brown; length, about s5in. Antenne absent, represented by 
rings, as in adult. JFect absent. Anal tubercles as in adult. 
Spinnerets and fringes as in adult. 
Young insect elongated-oval, tapering towards anal extremity, 
flat; anal tubercles clearly distinguishable, setiferous. Antenne 
of five joints; the last joint clavate and bearing hairs. Feet 
normal; upper digitules fine hairs; lower digitules absent. 
Colour reddish-brown; on the dorsal surface many scattered 
figure-of-8 spinnerets, from which spring long, curling, white, 
glassy tubes. Length of msect, about in. 
Adult male unknown. 
Habitat—On Leucopogon Fraseri, Amberley and Sumner, 
Canterbury ; on Leptospermum scoparium (manuka) (sparingly), 
Nelson. 
A very pretty little species, resembling in outward appearance 
Asterolecanium quercicola, Signoret, but much smaller, and dis- 
tinguishable by the presence of the anal tubercles. 
Genus : ERIOCOCCUS, Targioni-Tozzetti. 
Signoret, loc. cit., 1874, p. 29. 
Maskell, N.Z. Trans., Vol. XI., 1879, p. 218. 
Adult female enclosed in an elongated sac of white or yellow 
felted cotton; body elongated, segmented ; anal tubercles con- 
spicuous; feet and antenne present; several rows of conical 
spines on dorsal surface. Antenne of six joints. 
