Adult female filling the test, shrivelling at gestation; colour greyish or greenish-white. General appearance somewhat leathery. Rows of minute oval spinnerets run round the edge and across the body, corresponding with the divisions of the test. Antennæ of six joints, the third joint being the longest, and seeming double on account of the depressed ring: on the last joint some hairs. Feet normal, with somewhat thick coxæ and femora: upper digitules long; lower pair narrow. Anal ring with eight hairs. A row of scattered small hairs runs round the edge of the body.
Female of second stage very thin and transparent, seeming like a bluish-green film. The wavy edge is conspicuous. Antennæ of six joints.
Adult male yellowish. Antennæ nine-jointed, every joint except the first bearing several hairs. Feet normal; upper digitules not long, lower pair fine hairs. Thoracic band conspicuous and long. Abdominal spike short.
Habitat--On _Pittosporum eugenioide_, _P. tenuifolium_, _Panax arboreum_, _Coprosma lucida_, _Rubus_, &c., Riccarton Bush, Christchurch; Nelson; Dunedin; Wellington.
38. Ctenochiton piperis, Maskell. N.Z. Trans., Vol. XIV., 1881, p. 218; Vol. XVII., 1884, p. 25. (Plate VIII., Fig. 3.)
Test of adult female circular, convex, regularly tessellated in hexagonal segments; fringe not very regular, sometimes almost or quite absent; waxy, somewhat thick; diameter, about 1/15in. Colour variable; outer parts white, yellow, or greenish-white, central segments purplish.
Test of second stage of female waxy, very thin, flat, with fringe of broadly triangular segments: no air-cells. Length, about 1/30in.
Test of male elongated, convex, glassy, segmented. Length, about 1/20in. Slightly coloured like that of the female.
Adult female filling the test. Colour corresponding with that of the test. At gestation the under-side becomes hollow, and the young are sheltered beneath it for awhile. Antennæ seven-jointed; on the last joint several hairs. Feet normal; lower digitules rather broad. Round the dorsal surface, half-way between the centre and the edge, is a row of swellings[O] or tubercles.
Female of second stage elongated, the cephalic portion narrower than the abdomen; flat, thin; edge wavy; stigmatic spines rather stout; a few small spines on the edge. Antennæ six-jointed; feet normal.