An Account of the Insects Noxious to Agriculture and Plants in New Zealand / The Scale Insects (Coccididae)

AN ACCOUNT
OF THE
INSECTS NOXIOUS TO AGRICULTURE AND PLANTS
NEW ZEALAND.
THE SCALE-INSECTS (COCCIDIDÆ).
By W. M. MASKELL, F.R.M.S., REGISTRAR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW ZEALAND.
WELLINGTON: BY AUTHORITY: GEO. DIDSBURY, GOVERNMENT PRINTER. 1887.
Mr. Maskell's Account of the Scale-Insects occurring in New Zealand is published by the State Forests and Agricultural Department, under the instructions of the Hon. John Ballance, Commissioner of State Forests.
Wellington, 31st March, 1887.
CONTENTS.

The number and variety of the insect pests which live on the plants of New Zealand, whether native or introduced, and the damage which they frequently do, form the excuse for the appearance of this work. The descriptions of these insects in the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, or in works published in Europe and America, are not easily accessible to the general reader, and are also much scattered and fragmentary. It was thought therefore that the time had arrived when the information which might be useful to gardeners and tree-growers, as well as to students, might be summarized and brought together in a compendious form, and the present volume is an attempt towards this.