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NOTES ON THE SUBFAMILY BRACHYSCELINjE, WITH 

 DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES.— Part V. 



By Walter W. Froggatt, F.L.S. 



(Plates VIII. -IX.) 



Since the pul)lication of my last contriluition to the study of 

 gall-making coccids, several important papers dealing with this 

 subject have appeared. Among them is a rather extensive one 

 upon Australian Galls* by C. H. Riibsaamen, illustrated with 

 many plates, in which he describes a number of new species; 

 whereas if he had been able to examine more material he would 

 have found that most of them were only variable forms of species 

 already described. Maskell's Cylindroccus amplior he has re- 

 named Crocidocysta froygatti, forming a new genus for its 

 reception, though, as Maskellf points out, there can be no doubt 

 about the identity of this common gall. Comparing his descrip- 

 tions and plates I consider that three or four of his new species 

 are identical with others already described. I also refer my readers 

 to Maskell's remarks upon Riibsaamen's proposed alteration of 

 the name of our well-known genus Brachyscelis to Apiomorpha. 



Towards the end of 1893 Tepper,| in a paper read before the 

 Royal Society of South Australia, described a number of coccids, 

 some of which had been given MS. names by Olliff before that 

 date, but as it was not until 1896 that this MS. was published by 

 Fuller§ in which these names were retained, OllifF's specific names 

 will in several instances have to rank as synonyms. 



* " Ueber Australische Zoocecidien und deren Erzeuger," Berliner Ento- 

 molog. Zeitschrift, Bd. xxxix. 1894, Heft 2, pp. 199-284. 

 t Further Coccid Notes, &c.. Trans. New Zealand Inst. 1896, pp. 293-331. 



+ Trans. Royal Society, S.A. 1893. 

 § Forest Insects : Some Gall-making Coccids, Agri. Gazette, N.S.W. 1896. 



