Groups of spinnerets, five (in one American species, six); rarely wanting.

21. Chionaspis citri, Comstock; 2nd Rep., Dep. of Entom., Cornell Univ., 1883.

Chionaspis euonymi, Comstock (in part); Ag. Rep., 1880, p. 313.

N.Z. Trans., Vol. XVII., p. 1884, p. 23.

([Plate VI.], Fig. 1.)

Female puparium dirty blackish-brown, with a grey margin; elongated. "There is a central ridge from which the sides slope like the roof of a house" (Comstock).

Male puparium white, narrow, carinated.

Adult female yellowish-white, elongated, segmented. Abdomen ending in six lobes, of which the two median are the largest: these two are divergent. Along the edge some spines. No groups of spinnerets: a few single ones.

Adult male unknown.

Habitat—On oranges sold in the shops, imported from Sydney.