11. Diaspis rosæ, Sandberg.
Aspidiotus rosæ, Sandberg; Abhand., priv. Boh., No. 6, p. 317.
Diaspis rosæ, Signoret, loc. cit., 1869, p. 441.
N.Z. Trans., Vol. XI., 1878, p. 201.
([Plate IV.], Fig. 6.)
Female puparium nearly circular, white, often aggregated in masses; diameter, about 1/12in. Pellicles, marginal.
Male puparium white, elongated, carinated; length, about 1/20in.
Adult female deep-red in colour, elongated, the body deeply segmented. Cephalic region very large, smooth. On each segment of the body several spiny hairs. Abdomen ending in two conspicuous lobes with a depression between them, and some spiny hairs. Five groups of spinnerets, but the lateral groups are almost continuous; uppermost group with about twenty orifices; in the lateral groups, fifty to sixty orifices. No single spinnerets.
Adult male orange-red in colour; antennæ ten-jointed, with several hairs on all but the first two joints; feet slender, hairy; digitules, fine hairs. The spike is somewhat long.
Habitat—On rose-trees, Governor's Bay, Canterbury-Napier.