57. Eriococcus pallidus, Maskell.
N.Z. Trans., Vol. XVII., 1884, p. 29.
([Plate XV.], Fig. 2.)
Sac of adult female yellowish-white, elongated-oval, convex, closed at both ends. Length, about 1/9in.
Sac of male unknown.
Adult female greenish-grey, turning to brown after gestation; filling the sac; shrivelling at gestation. Anal tubercles rather large and conspicuous. Anogenital ring small, with eight (sometimes six?) fine short hairs. Antennæ of six joints. Feet normal, slender; lower digitules narrow and rather long. Body segmented; segments not very distinct. On the middle of each segment a transverse row of small slender conical spines not set closely together. Very many small scattered oval spinneret orifices.
Adult male unknown.
Habitat—On Myoporum lætum (ngaio), Elæocarpus dentatus (hinau), &c.; throughout the Islands.
Allied to E. buxi, Signoret (European), and E. multispinus, ante: but different from both in colour, in the arrangement of the spines and spinnerets, and in the form of the antennæ.