Habitat—On Panax arboreum, Coprosma lucida, Hedycarya dentata, Atherosperma Novæ-Zælandiæ, Rubus australis; Canterbury, Otago, Wellington, Nelson, Auckland, Hawke's Bay.
This is probably the largest known species of the Lecanidinæ. Its size and bright-green colour in the adult state clearly distinguish it. The female of the second stage resembles nearly that of Ct. perforatus, but is somewhat thicker, and the markings of the segments of the test are different.
N.Z. Trans., Vol. XI., 1878, p. 213.
Test of female glassy, elevated, striated with radiating rows of air-cells. Fringe not always present in the adult stage.
In the genus Fairmairia, Signoret, there is also an elevated test, but it is waxy, and exhibits no air-cells, and has no fringe in any stage.
40. Inglisia leptospermi, Maskell.
N.Z. Trans., Vol. XIV., 1881, p. 220; Vol. XVII., 1884, p. 27.
([Plate IX.], Fig. 2.)
Test of adult female white, glassy or waxy, elongated, convex above, flat and open beneath, formed of several agglutinated segments, each segment more or less convex or conical, median segments usually five in number; at the edge an irregular fringe, but the fringe is often absent. Average length of test, 1/10in. The marginal segments sometimes assume the form of small cones, as if a number of secondary tests were attached to the principal one. All the segments are marked with striæ radiating from the apex of each: the striæ, which are composed of air-cells, widen from the apex to the base.