376 NOTES ON THE SUBFAMILY BRACHYSCELINJE, 



Brachyscelis floealis, n.sp. 



(PL VIII., fig. 8; PI. IX., figs. 9-10.) 



2. Gall dull green, 1^ inches in length, diameter 9 lines, 

 broadly rounded at the base, oval, tapering into a cone-shaped 

 apex, truncated, with a slightly thickened edge, forming a riin 

 round the small rounded apical orifice, which is situated in a 

 convex depression; walls of chamber thick; gall-chamber 5^^ lines 

 in diameter, elongate at the apex. 



This gall springs from a cluster of flower buds, and grows alone 

 like B. ovicoJa. 



5. Coccid pale yellow, 1 inch in length, ^ inch in diameter, 

 broadly turbinate; cephalic and thoracic segments rounded; abdo- 

 minal ones very distinctly divided, tapering off sharply from the 

 third to the tip. Dorsal surface covered with fine, short, ferru- 

 ginous spines, forming a broad, irregular, parallel band from the 

 head to the tip of the abdomen, broadest and more scattered upon 

 the abdominal segments, but forming a regular fringe on the 

 apical edge of the last two; anal appendages short and stout, close 

 together, forming a close blunt point, slightly opening out at the 

 tip with two short spines on either side. Ventral surface of the 

 cephalic segment rugose, the mouth projecting in a rounded, 

 raised tubercle; femoi'a of fore legs broad; tibiae short; claws 

 black; middle and hind legs larger, short, and broad at the base; 

 abdominal segments lightly fringed on the sides with long hairs. 



(J. Gall and coccid unknown. 



Hab. — Central Australia (on Kucalyptus sp.; Mr. Chas. French). 



Opisthoscelis NIGRA, n.sp. 



(PL IX., figs. 11-15.) 



9. Gall slender, thorn- or spur-shaped, springing from an 

 enlarged growth or swelling upon the branchlet, broadest at the 

 base, curving round at the tip, varying from half an inch to two 

 lines in length when growing in a mass; gall-chamber circular at 



