SCALE-INSECTS. 1OL 
round the edge of the body, often absent. Antenne of cight 
joints, each bearing hairs. Feet normal; lower digitules rather 
broad. 
Sac of male pupa narrow, cylindrical, white, cottony, open 
at the posterior end. Length, about fin. 
Adult male about z'5in. long; brown, covered when newly 
hatched with white meal. Body rather thick ; abdominal spike 
short. Antenne of ten joints, hairy; the last eight joints 
equal to each other. Feet slender, hairy ; upper digitules long, 
fine ; lower digitules short. 
Habitat—On Panaxr, Rubus, Coprosma, Pittosporum, Piper 
excelsum, &c.; throughout the Islands : also frequently on fruit- 
trees. 
A species more nearly resembling the ordinary ‘ mealy 
bug,” D. adonidum, than any other in New Zealand ; but differ- 
ing in colour, in the absence of long marginal appendages, and 
in the form of the foot and antenne. 
63. Dacrytorius pom, Maskell. 
NVA. Trans, Vol. XL, 1878, p. 220: 
(Plate XVIII., Fig. 1.) 
Adult female pink, covered with thin white meal; slightly 
elongated, sometimes globular; flat beneath, convex above ; 
segmented, the segments indistinct. Length reaching about 
zoin. Antenne of eight joints, very short. Feet normal, very 
short ; upper digitules short, lower digitules absent (?). Anal 
tubercles extremely small and inconspicuous; each has three 
conical spines, but no hairs. Anogenital ring large, with six 
hairs. On the dorsum are numbers of small circular spin- 
nerets. 
Adult male unknown. 
Habitat—On the common tussock grass, Poa anceps (aus- 
tralis 2), Mount Grey Downs and Port Hills, Canterbury ; 
either just above the ground, or more often an inch or two 
below the surface. ) 
A. species clearly distinct in form and. habit. 
Genus : PSEUDOCOCCUS, Westwood. 
Adult females covered with cottony secretion; stationary ; 
antenne of nine joints; anogenital ring conspicuous, with six 
hairs ; upper digitules of the foot absent. 
