Adult female yellowish- or reddish-brown, naked, slightly convex, elongated; skin smooth, with puncta; length variable, from about 1/7in. to 1/9in. Antennæ (according to Signoret) with sometimes six, sometimes seven, joints. Abdominal cleft and lobes normal. The insect excretes a narrow, white, cylindrical cottony ovisac, which is conspicuous on the leaf of the plant, and the brown body of the female can be seen at one end of it. The eggs in this ovisac are numerous, perhaps some hundreds. Larva and second stage of female flat, oval, yellowish-brown. Male pupa covered with a waxy, elongated test as in the genus _Ctenochiton_, but there is no fringe and the segments of the test are not conspicuous; the test is oval and convex. Adult male yellowish-grey, the head rounded, with an anterior protuberance. Two dorsal and two ventral eyes, and two ocelli. Antennæ of ten joints, all hairy. Feet exhibiting only two digitules, the upper pair. Abdominal spike short, with two longish setæ on each side, each pair of which are covered with cotton which is produced into a long white conspicuous cauda. Habitat--On camellia. In the South, chiefly in greenhouses. In the Hutt Valley, Wellington, camellias in the open air are much subject to it. The female of this species is not unlike _Lecanium hesperidum_, but the formation of the white ovisac is a clearly distinguishing character. In late summer the female often drops off to the ground, leaving only the ovisac observable on the leaf. Subdivision III.--LECANO-COCCIDÆ, Maskell. N.Z. Trans., Vol. XVI., 1883, p. 128. Female insects covering themselves with a secretion of cottony or felted matter, forming more or less complete sacs. Male insects (where known) covered with similar secretion. Genus: ERIOCHITON, Maskell. Secretion white, felted, formed of threads issuing from prominent spiny spinnerets; inconspicuous or absent on adult female, thicker on male pupa. Abdominal cleft and lobes present in all stages of female.[R] [R] In both of the species here described the adult female has the tibiæ shorter than the tarsi. The author has hesitated to found a generic character on it until the discovery of other species; the character is quite exceptional in the family, occurring (besides) only in some species of _Acanthococcidæ_. In all others a tibia shorter than the tarsus would indicate an immature insect. [This genus contains the insect named hitherto _Ctenochiton spinosus_.] 51. Eriochiton hispidus, Maskell. N.Z. Trans., Vol. XIX., 1886, p. 47. (Plate XIII., Fig. 1.)