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Masters, Editor of the Gardener's Chronicle, who received them 

 from Baron von Mueller, Government Botanist of Victoria. With 

 the first, which is a slender, finger-like gall and is the production 

 of a Cynips or Cecidoniyia, we have nothing to do ; but the second 

 is a bunch of the female galls of Brachyscelis munita, though it 

 is described as the gall of a moth, and Mr. McLacblan says of it : 

 "Fortunately in this instance it is possible to fix with certainty 

 tlie order to which the gall-maker belongs. Baron von Mueller 

 extracted larv£e from some similar galls and forwarded them in 

 fluid. They are Lepidopterous." He minutely describes the gall, 

 and considers the apical orifice as a breathing pore for the larvje, 

 left open on accouut of the walls of the galls being so solid. 



^a6. — Botany, on E. robusta (W. W. Froggatt) ; near Parra- 

 matta, on U. sp. (J. J. Fletcher) ; Wellington, on E. sp. (W. W. 

 Froggatt); Newcastle (R. Thornton); Melbourne, on E. sp. (C. 

 French). 



From some specimens obtained from near Parramatta by Mr. 

 Fletcher I bred one specimen of liaplonyx ustipennis, Pascoe 

 (Journ. Linn. Soc. 1870, x. p. 488); the larva was an obese white 

 grub ; though I opened the gall before I noticed the grub, it 

 throve and came out a perfect insect three months later. 



Brachyscelis tricornis, n.sp. 



<^. Gall triangular, the angles rounded, smallest at base where 

 attached to the twig, sessile, swelling out and widest at apex ; the 

 horns standing out at right angles, sword-shaped, very thick and 

 swollen at base, terminating in a broad tip; gall 10 lines high, 9 

 broad at base of horns ; length of horns, 2^ to 3 inches ; apical 

 orifice very small, circular, situated in centre between the horns ; 

 chamber containing coccid rounded at base, of a uniform width 

 for two-thirds of height, coming to an obtuse point at the apex ; 

 walls of chamber of a medium thickness. 



^. Coccid yellow to dull brown, rounded at apex ; thoracic 

 segments well defined ; basal joint of middle and hind legs short 

 and globose, second joint short, cylindrical ; tai'sal claw sharp and 

 hooked ; abdominal segments narrow and tapering to a sharp tip 



