372 NOTES ON THE SUBFAMILY BRACUYSCELIN Ji, 



9. Coccid pale ochreous-yellow, anal appendages black; 5 lines 

 in length, H in diameter; dorsal surface rounded, swelling out on 

 the sides in a line with the middle pair of legs, covered with 

 scattered spiny hairs : first to fourth abdominal segments of 

 uniform length, tapering sharply towards the apex; fifth to eighth 

 armed with a row of stout spines along the apical margin; ninth 

 more than twice the length of the preceding ones; anal appendages 

 slender, half as long again as the anal segment, closed at the base, 

 but opening out at the apex. Ventral surface of the head and 

 thoracic segments very much wrinkled; legs ferruginous, stout, 

 claws large; thoracic segments bisected by an impressed line to 

 the hind pair of legs; abdominal segments fringed -svith fine hairs. 



Hah. — Uralla (Mr. G. McD. Adamson); Kenmore, near Goul- 

 burn {Mr. J. H. Maiden); Myrniong, Vic. (Mr. James Lidgett); 

 Wellington, N.S.W. (W. W. Froggatt). 



Brachyscelis pileata, Schrader. 

 (PL VIII, fig. 1.) 



Larva pale yellow, oval, rounded in front, slightly jDointed at 

 the tip of the abdomen. Antennae 6-jointed, 1st joint conical, 

 broad at the base, the remainder smaller and oval, thrice the 

 length of the marginal fringe and furnished with two long hairs 

 at the tip, nearly as long as the antennte; eyes black, situated at 

 the edge, behind the base of the antenn;e; dorsal surface of the 

 head, thorax and sides of the abdominal segments covered with 

 fine short hairs. The flanged spines forming the marginal fringe 

 as long as the thighs of the larva, close and unbroken round to 

 the anal tip, which forms a truncate cylindrical point, with a fine 

 hair-like filament more than half the length of the insect floating 

 out behind on either side; tarsal claws very small, sharp, with the 

 two digitals extending beyond on either side. 



Larva No. 2. — Another form crawling about among the others 

 had the abdomen more elongated, and the marginal fringe only 

 flanged at the base instead of being broadly flanged and truncated 

 at the outer edge, each spine being sliarp at the extremity; anal 



