Sac of adult female white, cottony, elongated, often aggregated in masses; length, about 1/10in.
Sac of male similar, but much smaller.
Adult female elongated-oval, convex, segmented; colour yellowish; anal tubercles brown, conspicuous. Length of insect, about 1/12in. Antennæ of six joints, with some hairs. Feet normal. Anogenital ring inconspicuous, with eight short hairs. On the edge of the body a row of conical spines (spinnerets). After gestation the insect loses its regular oval outline, shrivelling 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 waxen 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 E. buxi, Signoret; but the sac differs, and there are a few distinguishing characters in the form of the antennæ and feet.
55. Eriococcus hoheriæ, Maskell.
N.Z. Trans., Vol. XII., 1879, p. 298; Vol. XIX., 1886.
([Plate XIV.], Fig. 2.)