An Account of the Insects Noxious to Agriculture and Plants in New Zealand / The Scale Insects (Coccididae)

by William Miles Maskell

Chermes hibernaculorum, Boisduval, Ent. Hort., 1867, 337.

Maskell, N.Z. Trans., Vol. XI., 1878, p. 207.

Adult female nearly globular; naked; reddish-brown; diameter about ¹/₉in.; at gestation the body becomes simply an inverted bag covering the eggs and young. The insect appears to be partly oviparous, partly viviparous. Antennæ of eight joints. Feet normal. Skin pretty regularly marked with oval perforations.

Male unknown.

Habitat in New Zealand—On various greenhouse plants, Christchurch. In Europe on Brexia, Phajus, &c.

The insect belongs to Signoret's fourth series, and may perhaps be only a large variety of L. hemisphæricum.

47. Lecanium maculatum, Signoret, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, 1873, p. 400.

Maskell, N.Z. Trans., Vol. XI., 1878, p. 207.

Adult female naked; flat, elongated; dorsal skin marked with a median row of rather large oval spots reaching from the abdominal cleft to the region of the rostrum. Length, about ¹/₁₅in. Colour yellowish-brown. Antennæ of seven joints. Feet normal.