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 XXII.

Plate XXIII.

Parasites of Coccididæ.

Fig.

1. a, pupa of hymenopterous parasite; b, the same pupa under the waxy test of Ctenochiton perforatus; c, imago, or full-grown parasite.

2. a, brown and yellow fungi on Ctenochiton viridis (leaf of Hedycarya dentata); b, upper side of brown fungus; c, under-side of the same, with attached fungoid sheet; d., Ctenochiton viridis (test removed) filled with yellow fungus, and with globular mass of the same above it.