BY WALTER W. PROGGATT. 



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It is remarkable that until the last few years no gall-making 

 coccid had been discovered outside Australia. Lately a curious 

 udder-shaped gall has been described by Cockerell* upon the 

 leaves of an oak (Quercus wrighti) at Pinos Altos, New Mexico. 



In the present paper I have described several new species from 

 different parts of Australia, added a few notes upon imperfectly 

 described species, extended the range of others, and described the 

 larvae. 



Brachyscelis urnalis, Tepper. 



B. Schraderi, Olliff, MS. 



The galls of this species were described and figured by Tepper 

 in clusters upon Eucalyptus uncinata and E. gracilis growing at 

 Murray Bridge, S.A. Specimens growing singly upon an unde- 

 termined Eucalypt from the neighbourhood of Tamworth, N.S.W,, 

 were described by Olliff (MS. Notes) under the name of B. 

 Schraderi and published after his death by Fuller in the Agri- 

 cultural Gazette, N.S.W. 



I had collected specimens of this gall growing on a large scrub 

 eucalypt, near Wellington, in 1891; they were afterwards collected 

 growing singly upon E. mdiodora at Goulburn; again some very 

 fine specimens in clustering masses radiating round the branchlets, 

 comprising upwards of a hundred galls, somewhat more slender 

 on account of the compression than the typical form, were received 

 from Uralla growing upon E. polyanthema. 



The specimens from Goulburn agree with Olliff's species, and 

 those from Uralla with Tepper's, but the difference is due to the 

 habit of s;rowth; a careful examination of the enclosed coccid 

 shows that there is no specific difference. 



As the descriptions given both by Fuller and by Tepper are 

 very brief, I take the opportunity of adding a further description 

 of the female coccid after examining a fine collection of sj)ecimens. 



* Cockerell, Science, 1S96, Vol. iv. p. 299. 



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