Plate V., fig. 5.

I have found this species on a great many native plants, but more often perhaps on Drimys colorata, whence I give it its name.

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The puparium is straight, long and narrow, but not so much so as in M. cordylinidis. Average length 1/12 inch; breadth 1/30 inch; colour generally a dirty white, sometimes brown, yellow at the end with the discarded pellicles, which are oval, narrowing somewhat at the tip.

The adult female is of a dull red colour, about twice as long as broad; the widest part is about two-thirds of the length from the head. It is less corrugated than M. pomorum; the head and thoracic portion of the body are smooth and round, the anterior edge not so much flattened as in M. cordylinidis. The remainder of the body, on the corrugations, has a row of short, thick, tubular bristles extending down the edge as far as the commencement of the abdominal pygidium; these are cylindrical, some with a circular top, some forked, some appearing like bundles of parallel fibres. It is probable that they are spinnerets protruding further than is usual in other species.

There are no groups of spinnerets on the abdomen, but a number of single ones, mostly oblong, scattered about.

The abdomen ends in a number of very small lobes of which four are conspicuous in the centre. Between the lobes fine hairs.

On the cephalic region are a few scattered spines and the two rudimentary antennæ.

I have no adult male, but pupæ showing long antennæ, a very long body, short wings and the usual abdominal spike peculiar to the Diaspidæ.