Habitat—On Astelia cunninghamii, Wellington.
16. Mytilaspis leptospermi, Maskell.
N.Z. Trans., Vol. XIV., 1881, p. 215.
([Plate V.], Fig. 4.)
Female puparium flat, elongated, irregularly pyriform, light-brown in colour; length, about 1/12in. The secretion forming the puparium is mixed with bark-cells of the tree, arranged longitudinally.
Male puparium narrower than that of the female, and darker in colour.
Adult female greyish-green, elongated, segmented; abdomen ending in six lobes, of which the two median are conspicuous and somewhat large and floriated, the rest very small. Five groups of spinnerets: the upper group with about fifteen openings; the others with from twenty-five to thirty-five. Single spinnerets none, or very few.
Adult male unknown.
Habitat—On Leptospermum scoparium (manuka), Wellington; Canterbury; Auckland. The puparia are often numerous on the loose scaly bark of the tree.
17. Mytilaspis metrosideri, Maskell.