Adult male unknown.

Habitat—On Atherosperma Novæ Zælandiæ, Wellington; Hawke's Bay.

2. Aspidiotus Budlæiæ, Signoret.

Ann. de la Soc. Entom. de France, 1868, p. 115.

N.Z. Trans., Vol. XI., 1878, p. 198.

Female puparium circular, flat, dirty-white, about 1/15in. in diameter.

Male puparium oval, dirty-white, about 1/30in. in length.

Adult female light-yellow, peg-top shaped; abdomen ending in two somewhat prominent lobes, with scaly hairs and spines. Four groups of spinnerets: upper groups with five or six orifices; lower groups, three or four.

Adult male yellow, slightly brown on the thorax; antennæ of ten joints, all hairy.