A European species, stated by Mr. Comstock to attack, in America, blackberries and raspberries, besides the rose.
The deep-red colour and abnormally-large cephalic segment of this insect distinguish it from all others.
12. Diaspis santali, Maskell.
N.Z. Trans., Vol. XVI., 1883, p. 122.
([Plate IV.], Fig. 7.)
Female puparium yellowish-grey in colour, sometimes with a greenish tinge; outline oval; very convex; pellicles at one end, black, inconspicuous; length of puparium, about 1/15in.
Male puparium white, elongated, carinated; pellicle, black; length, about 1/25in.
Adult female orange-red in colour, peg-top shaped; the abdominal segment very small as compared with the rest of the body, and the two next segments overlap it. Abdomen ending in two conspicuous, prominent, median lobes, and at each side of them two semi-circular depressions: several branched and serrated hairs in the region of these lobes. There are no groups of spinnerets. There is no wide depression of the edge between the median lobes.
Adult male unknown.