BY WALTER W. FROGGATT. 375 



Hah. — Port Macquarie (Mr. G. R. Brown; the larvse were 

 taken from galls collected in April). 



Brachyscelis attenuata, n.sp. 

 (PI. VIII., figs. 5-7.) 



9. Gall green, with greyish pubescence ; length 1^ inches, 

 diameter at greatest girth 2 lines; spindle-shaped, slender, cylin- 

 drical, tapering at the base, rounded to a blunt tip at the apex; 

 apical orifice small, circular, with a slight rim surrounding it; 

 walls of chamber very thin, the chamber extending from the 

 extreme base of the foot-stalk to the apical orifice. Growing 

 erect in bunches among the flower liuds, sometimes from the side 

 of the bud, but generally from between them. 



9. Coccid dull yellow; apex of the 5th and 6th segments and 

 anal appendages black; legs reddish-brown; length J an inch; 

 rounded at the summit, swelling out on the sides and tapering 

 sharply to the tip of the abdomen, from the apex of the thoracic 

 segments; third thoracic and all the abdominal segments deeply 

 constricted. Dorsal surface smooth to the 2nd abdominal segment, 

 3rd segment with marginal row of fine spines, 4th more thickly 

 covered with spines; 5th and 6th broadly margined with coarser 

 spines; anal appendages short and thick at the base, opening out 

 at the apex with a short spur-like spine on the inner margin on 

 either side. Ventral surface flattened and corrugated on the 

 cephalic and thoracic segments; fore pair of legs and antennte 

 small ; second pair short ; hind legs large ; femora thick and 

 rounded; tibiae cylindrical; tarsal claw large, curved; last four 

 abdominal segments and anal appendages clothed with fine hairs. 



(J. Gall small, 3 lines in length, slender, cylindrical, with bell- 

 shaped extremity, springing from the sides of the flower buds or 

 among them. 



Hab. — South Australia (on Eucalyptus sp.; Mr. A. Molineaux). 



I am indebted to Mr. Molineaux, of the Agricultural Bureau, 

 S. A., for this fine specie.s, but am unable to give the exact locality, 

 as the type specimen was left at his oflice by a visitor without 

 any information. 



