Adult female of normal shape, but somewhat elongated. Abdomen ending in two lobes, with a few scattered scaly hairs. No groups of spinnerets. Habitat--On camellias, Christchurch; on euonymus, weeping willow, &c., Wellington. Very common in gardens about Wellington: sometimes does much damage to euonymus shrubs and hedges. 4. Aspidiotus Carpodeti, Maskell. N.Z. Trans., Vol. XVII., 1884, p. 21. Female puparium usually light-brown, but varying a little with the colour of the bark of the tree; convex; circular; the pellicles in the centre; some specimens are slightly elongated. Average diameter, 1/16in. Male puparium narrow, with parallel sides; not carinated; dirty-white or brownish colour; length, about 1/16in. Adult female of the normal peg-top shape, the abdomen not so much overlapped as usual. Abdomen ending in two median somewhat prominent lobes, with two others much smaller not in close proximity; edge of the body jagged, with curvilinear incisions, amongst which and between the lobes are a number of serrated pointed hairs, as in _A. nerii_. Four groups of spinnerets: lower pair with four to six orifices; upper, with six to ten. These groups seem surrounded by a narrow line as if enclosed in a chamber: the same appearance is presented (according to a figure of Mr. Comstock's) in _A. nerii_. There are many single spinnerets. Adult male of normal form, with antennæ of ten joints, of which the seventh, eighth, and ninth are the longest. The haltere has a somewhat long peduncle. The abdominal spike is rather long, and springs from a large tubercle. Habitat--On _Carpodetus serratus_ and _Vitex littoralis_ (puriri), Wellington. The puparia are so like in colour to the bark that it is difficult to detect them. This insect is evidently closely allied to _A. nerii_, but differs in the abdominal lobes of the female and in the antennæ of the male; its male puparium is also much longer, and that of the female more convex, than in that species. 5. Aspidiotus coccineus, Gennadius.[K] _Aspidiotus aurantii_, Maskell. N.Z. Trans., Vol. XI., 1878, p. 199. _Aspidiotus citri_, Comstock; Canadian Entom., Vol. XIII., p. 8. (Plate IV., Fig. 3.) [K] The author has not been able to find the original description of Gennadius, which appears to have been contained in a report to the Minister for Agriculture in Greece. Dr. Signoret states that there is a reference to it in "Risso, Histoire Naturelle des Oranges," Vol. I., p. 220. Female puparium really dirty-white, but seeming yellowish-brown, from the colour of the insect beneath; sometimes dark-brown; circular, flat; diameter, about 1/11in. Male puparium much smaller, rather oval.