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 III.

Plate IV.

Fig.

1. Aspidiotus atherospermæ. a, insects on leaf of Atherosperma; b, adult female.

2. Aspidiotus camelliæ. a, insects on twig of Euonymus; b, adult female; c, d, puparia of female.

3. Aspidiotus coccineus. a, insects on rind of orange; b, adult female in puparium (overturned); c, puparium of male.

4. Aspidiotus nerii. a, insects on leaf of wattle; b, puparia, male and female.

5. Diaspis Boisduvalii, adult female (after Signoret).

6. Diaspis rosæ. a, insects on twig of rose; b, adult female; c, puparia, male and female.

7. Diaspis santali. a, insects on twig of pear; b, male and female puparia; c, last abdominal segment of female.