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54. ERrococcus aravcartx, Maskell. 
NZ, trans, Vol. Gel; 1878, p. 218; Vol, XV, 1883, 
p. 134. 
Rhizococcus araucarie, Comstock; Rept. of Kntom., U.S. 
Agric. Dept., 1881, p. 339. 
(Plate XIV., Fig 1.) 
Sac of adult female white, cottony, elongated, often aggre- 
gated in masses; length, about 4,1n. 
Sac of male similar, but much smaller. 
Adult female elongated-oval, convex, segmented; colour 
yellowish ; anal tubercles brown, conspicuous. Length of insect, 
about 5;4;in. Antenne of six joints, with some hairs. Feet 
normal. Anogenital rmg inconspicuous, with eight short hairs. 
On the edge of the body a row of conical spines (spinnerets). 
After gestation the imsect loses its regular oval outline, shrivel- 
ling up at one end of the sac. 
Young larva and female of second stage similar to adult, 
but smaller. 
Adult male, “a delicate fly-like creature, with two large 
wings and a pair of long waxcn filaments projecting from posterior 
part of the abdomen ; these filaments are very conspicuous, being 
white, and longer than the body of the insect. Colour of 
body white, with many irregular markings” (Comstock, loc. 
cit.):. 
Habitat in New Zealand —On Araucaria excelsior (Norfolk 
Island pine), Governor’s Bay, Canterbury. In America, on 
same plant. 
This insect is not greatly different from H. dust, Signoret ; 
but the sac differs, and there are a few distinguishing characters 
in the form of the antenne and feet. 
55. Eriococcus nonert&, Maskell. 
N.Z: Trans., Vol. XII., 1879, p. 298; Vol: XIX., 1886. 
(Plate XIV., Fig. 2.) 
Sac of adult female white, cottony, irregularly elliptical, 
slightly convex, often aggregated in masses; frequently so 
covered with black fungus as to present the appearance of a 
minute gall. 
Sac of male white, convex, smaller and more elongated than 
that of the female. 
