Adult male red in colour; antennæ of ten joints; tarsi somewhat large. Both antennæ and feet have numerous hairs. Digitules, fine.
Habitat—On Drimys colorata, Water of Leith, Dunedin, from which it has spread to other native plants.
15. Mytilaspis epiphytidis, Maskell.
N.Z. Trans., Vol. XVII., 1884, p. 21.
([Plate V.], Fig. 2.)
Female puparium flat, pyriform, brown in colour, thin; length, about 1/11in.
Male puparium narrower than that of the female, and a good deal darker, being sometimes almost black; length, about 1/20in.; not carinated.
Adult female dark-grey in colour, elongated, segmented. Abdomen ending in two median lobes; along the edge several deepish curvilinear incisions, between which are some strong spines. Five groups of spinnerets: lower pair with fourteen to sixteen orifices; upper pair, twelve to sixteen; uppermost group, four to six.
Adult male unknown.