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. Male puparium elongated, narrow, like that of the female; length, about 1/12in.; colour white; pellicle, black, at one end; not carinated. Some puparia, both male and female, are found slightly curved. Adult female small, elongated, segmented; length, about 1/30in., shrivelling at gestation. Cephalic portion compressed, cylindrical. Abdomen somewhat elongated, ending in a number of sharp-pointed, triangular, tooth-like lobes, between which may be made out a few (four?) very minute, roundly-triangular lobes. Five groups of spinnerets, the three upper groups almost joined in an arch; in the arch, forty to fifty orifices; in the two lower groups, ten to fifteen. Adult male, brown. Antennæ, ten-jointed; each joint except the first two long and hairy; on the last joint one hair longer than the rest, and ending in a knob. Legs, slender; claw, very thin; digitules, fine hairs. Habitat--On _Dendrobium_, sp., _Hedycarya_, sp., Hawke's Bay; _Phormium tenax_, _Cordyline australis_, _Astelia cunninghamii_, _Muhlenbeckia_, sp., Wellington; Canterbury; Nelson. Group II.--LECANIDINÆ.