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Notes: [Conference held at the University of Auckland in February 2001.] The conference includes a paper by D.R. Towns (Interactions between geckos, honeydew scale insects and host plants revealed on islands in northern New Zealand, following eradication of introduced rats and rabbits) that discusses the scale insect Coelostomidia zealandica (Hemiptera: Margarodidae) infesting ngaio (Myoporum laetum) and karo (Pittosporum crassifolium).