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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895. Excerpt: ... TKANSACTIONS OF THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE, 1894. I.--ZOOLOGY. Art. I.--Synoptical List of Coccidse reported from Australasia and the Pacific Islands up to December, 1894. By W. M. Maskrll, Registrar of the University of New Zealand, Corr. Mem. Roy. Soc. of South Australia. Bead before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 17th October, 1894. Sub-family DIASPIDIN.2E. Genus Aspidiotus, Bouche. This genus is cosmopolitan. Aspidiotus Acacia, Morgan.--Morgan, Ent. Mo. Mag., Aug., 1889, p. 853; Maskell, N.Z. Inst. Trans., 1892, p. 205. Sab. In Tasmania, on Acacia pyenantha; in New South Wales, on Eucalyptus sp. (Whitton). As-piDiOTUS Acaci.s:, Morgan, var. propinqua, Maskell.--MaskeII, N.Z. Trans., 1892, p. 205. Sab. In New South Wales, on Acacia sp. (Mount Victoria); on Hakea saligna (Sydney). AsprDioTCS Atherosperjle, Maskell.--Maskell, N.Z. Trans., 1878, p. 198; Scale-Insects of N.Z., 1887, p. 40. Sab. In New Zealand, on Atherosperma novce-zealandia (Wellington; Hawke's Bay). Aspidiotus Aurantii, Maskell. Aspidiotus coccineus, Gennadius (Risso, Hist. Nat. des Oranges). Aspidiotus citri, Comstock, Canadian Entomologist, vol. xiii., p. 8.--Maskell, N.Z. Trans. 1878, p. 199; ib., 1881, p. 217; ib., 1883, p. 120; ib., 1891, p. 12; ib., 1892, p. 206; ib., 1894, p. 40; Scale-Insects of N.Z., 1887, p. 40. Comstock, Ent. Rep. U.S. Dept. Agric, 1880, p. 293; 2nd Cornell University Ent. Rep., 1883, p. 59. Riley and Howard, "Insect Life," passim. Royal Gardens, Kew, Bulletin, Sept., 1891, p. 221. Hab. In Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Sandwich Islands, Samoa, Tonga, New Caledonia, on Citrus. Occurs on the same trees in many other countries: in California and in Jamaica on Eucalyptus, Lignum-vita, &c. Aspidiotus Rossier, Maskell.--Maskell, N.Z. Trans., 1891, p. 10. Hab. ...
