. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand . tttm$ f *m Jbafaak $mtiiutef Vol. xxv., ixAnat L0CCID1DA- xhth Maskell.—On Coccididae. 217 because, although it was first made known by Dr. Andersonin 1790-91, and mentioned since that time by several writers—including Westwood, 1853, and Signoret, 1872—all of theseappear to have confined their attention to the waxy tests, andI am not aware that the insect itself has ever yet been fullydescribed. Signoret merely says that it is subglobular, andslightly prolonged posteriorly. Fourteen species of Ceroplastesfrom differe
. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand . tttm$ f *m Jbafaak $mtiiutef Vol. xxv., ixAnat L0CCID1DA- xhth Maskell.—On Coccididae. 217 because, although it was first made known by Dr. Andersonin 1790-91, and mentioned since that time by several writers—including Westwood, 1853, and Signoret, 1872—all of theseappear to have confined their attention to the waxy tests, andI am not aware that the insect itself has ever yet been fullydescribed. Signoret merely says that it is subglobular, andslightly prolonged posteriorly. Fourteen species of Ceroplastesfrom different countries have received names, but probablyseveral of these are really identical: , G. chilensis, Gray,and C. vinsonii, Sign., and others, may all be really The only species in which the adult females havebeen reported hitherto as exhibiting a prolongation of theabdomen are C. ceriferus, C. psidii, Chav., C. cassia, Chav.,C. fairmairei, Sign., and G. cirripediformis, Comstock (anAmerican insect), and all these also have nearly similarconical spiracular spines. I am not su
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