Male unknown.
Habitat—On Phymatodes billardieri, Wellington; Auckland.
In outward appearance the female resembles M. pomorum, but the puparium is quite different, and the abdominal characters also differ.
19. Mytilaspis pomorum, Bouché.
Aspidiotus pomorum, Bouché; Ent. Zeit. Stett., 1851, XII., No. 1.
Aspidiotus conchiformis, auctorum; nec Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 2,221.
Aspidiotus pyrus-malus, Kennicott; 1854, Acad. Science of Cleveland.
Aspidiotus juglandis, Fitch; Ann. Rep., N.Y. State Ag. Soc., 1856; nec Signoret, loc. cit., 1870, p. 95.
Aspidiotus falciformis, Bärensprung; Journ. d'Alton et Burm., 1849.