106 INSECTS NOXIOUS TO AGRICULTURE. 
bearing a very long scta. Six longitudinal rows of circular 
multilocular spinnerets, four on the dorsum and one on each 
edge. Alternating with these are rows of hairs with tubercular 
bases. 
Adult male large, the length slightly varying ; some speci- 
mens reach gin.; expanse of wings, +in.; length of antenna, 
about gin. Body red, with a shining, diamond-shaped, black 
patch on the dorsal surface of the thorax; legs and antennz 
black. Wings dark-brown with (in some lights) a bluish tinge, 
marked with oblique, narrow, wavy stripes; main nervure red, 
branching once; there are also two longitudinal, whitish, 
narrow bands.* Antenne very long and slender, with ten joints, 
which may easily be taken for nineteen, for, after the first, 
which is short, round, and simple, all the other nine have two 
dilated portions with a constriction in the middle, and on each 
dilation is a rmg of very long hairs, giving the antenna a feathery 
appearance.t Eyes very large and prominent, almost pedun- 
culated, brown, divided into numerous semiglobular facets. Feet 
long and very hairy; coxe short and thick, tibize long and 
slender, claw thin; upper digitules absent, lower pair only short 
bristles. Abdomen slender, segments somewhat distinct ; on 
each segment some hairs; the last segment ends in two thick, 
conspicuous, cylindrical processes, which, in side view, are seen 
to incline upwards, and beneath them is the short, conical spike 
sheathing the penis. Penis red, longish, tubular, and thick, 
with many recurved short hairs, and at the end a ring of short 
spines. Hach of the two processes on the last segment bears 
three or four long sete, but there do not appear to be any of 
the long cottony appendages seen in the males of most Coccids. 
Habitat — On wattle, pine, orange, lemon, cypress, rose, 
gorse, grass, and, in fact, on almost every kind of native and 
introduced plants, Nelson, Hawke’s Bay, Auckland. It will pro- 
bably appear’ also elsewhere, but the climate of Canterbury and 
Otago may prove too cold in winter for it. 
Alhed to Jf. sacchari, Guérin, which damages sugar-canes in 
Mauritius; but differmg in the formation of the ovisac, the 
* Signoret (Ann. de la Soe. Ent. de France, 1875), under the genus Mono- 
phlebus, speaks of “les plis hyalins”’ as existing also in the wings of the males 
of that genus. 
+ Misled by similar appearances, Burmeister and Westwood assign twenty- 
five joints to the male antenna of Leachia fuscipennis. 
