374 NOTES ON THE SUBFAMILY BRACHYSCELINjE, 



together at the base, widening out at the tips. Antennte small, 

 fore legs minute, situated in a slight depression on either side; 

 last pair of legs longest, claws large. 



Larva pale yellow, elongate-oval, flattened on the back, antennae 

 composed of 6 or 7 elongate oval joints, bearing irregular longish 

 hairs, terminating with several stout hairs nearly as long as the 

 antennae. Outer margins of the segments fringed with delicate 

 spines, each of which is flanged on either side like a feather, 

 truncated at the tips and nearly in contact, forming a fringe 

 i^ound the insect except on each side of the anal extremity, which 

 is ornamented on either side with a long slender white filament 

 trailing out behind; on either side of the filaments the marginal 

 spines are bifid. Legs stout and hairy, with two stout claws. 



^. Gall and coccid unknown. 



This species is allied to B. pedunculata, OUifi^, MS.; but besides 

 the differences in the coccid, there is a very distinctive one in the 

 gall, namely, that the apical orifice is upon a projecting tip, while 

 in the former the tip is distinctly truncated, and the apical orifice 

 is situated in a depression. 



Nab.— C\ea.r Hills, N.S.W. (Wagga district) on "White Gum," 

 Eucalyptus sp. (Mr. T. G Sloane, to whom I am indebted for a 

 fine sei'ies of specimens.) 



Brachyscelis variabilis, Froggatt. 



Larva bright canary-yellow, with the marginal fringe silverj"^ 

 and transparent, the central spines very distinct. Broadly oval; 

 marginal fringe unbroken round to the anal tip which has a 

 detached more rounded spine projecting on either side, with 

 slender white filaments trailing out behind between the marginal 

 fringe and the detached spines. The dorsal surface shows 10 

 distinct segments of uniform size except the last, which is narrow 

 and rounded Antennse 6-jointed, short, cylindrical, uniform in 

 size, furnished at the tip with two slender hairs of unequal length. 

 Eyes black, outside the base of the antennpe. Legs hairy; tarsal 

 claws long. 



