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

by William Miles Maskell

A. D. WILLIS, WANGANUI, N. Z.

W.M.M., delt. ad. nat

PLATE II.

Plate III.

Types of Last Abdominal Segments of the Diaspidinæ.

Fig.

1. Aspidiotus coccineus (after Comstock); no groups of spinnerets.

2. Diaspis rosæ; five groups of spinnerets.

3. Mytilaspis cordylinidis; five groups of spinnerets and single orifices.

4. Mytilaspis pyriformis; five groups of spinnerets, almost forming an arch.

5. Chionaspis dysoxyli; five groups of spinnerets.

6. Poliaspis media; eight groups of spinnerets.

7. Fiorinia asteliæ; arch of spinnerets.

8. Fiorinia stricta; five groups of spinnerets, the three upper groups almost forming an arch.