Female puparium flat, elongated, oval; length, about 1/36in. First pellicle, comparatively large; the second almost fills the puparium.
Male puparium rather longer than that of the female, but much narrower; carinated.
Adult female elongated; segmented; colour, pink. The abdominal segment somewhat long, the edge broken by a number of deepish curvilinear serrations, and ending in two inconspicuous median lobes, with three others, much smaller, on each side. From the serrations spring some hairs. There are five groups of spinnerets, but the three upper ones, almost or quite conjoined, form a nearly-continuous arch, containing forty to fifty orifices; the two lower groups have fifteen to twenty. There are several single spinnerets. The adult insect, before gestation, nearly fills the space covered by the second pellicle; after gestation it shrinks up into very small compass at the cephalic end of the puparium.
Adult male unknown.
Habitat—On Brachyglottis repanda; Panax arboreum, Port Hills, Canterbury.
Differs from the European species, F. pellucida (Targioni), in its extremely-minute size, in the serrations of the abdomen, and the number of its hairs. Also in F. pellucida the young female larva has two tubercles between the antennæ, which are not seen in F. minima.
29. Fiorinia stricta, Maskell.
N.Z. Trans., Vol. XVI., 1883, p. 124; Vol. XVII., 1884, p. 24.
([Plate VI.], Fig. 7.)
Female puparium elongated, narrow, with sides almost straight and parallel; length, about 1/11in.; breadth, about 1/50in. Colour of secretion, white, but seeming black, as the second pellicle shows through it. First pellicle, black, small, at one end; the cephalic portion prolonged in a slightly-cylindrical form. Second pellicle, very long, filling the puparium; black; entire for most of its length, but at the abdominal extremity cut across by transverse divisions forming narrow radiating segments; extreme edge semi-circular, sharply serrated. Texture, horny, hard, and strong.