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.