A very pretty little species, resembling in outward appearance Asterolecanium quercicola, Signoret, but much smaller, and distinguishable 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 conspicuous; feet and antennæ present; several rows of conical spines on dorsal surface. Antennæ of six joints.
54. Eriococcus araucariæ, Maskell.
N.Z. Trans., Vol. XI., 1878, p. 218; Vol. XVI., 1883, p. 134.
Rhizococcus araucariæ, Comstock; Rept. of Entom., U.S. Agric. Dept., 1881, p. 339.
([Plate XIV.], Fig. 1.)