362 NOTES ON THE FAMILY BRACHYSCELIDiE, 



with a few scattered hairs on apical margins ; anal appendages 

 ferruginous, stout, close together at base, but cleft in a wedge- 

 sliaped opening outwards at the apex, truncate at tips ; upper side 

 of abdominal segments with a few long hairs on apical portion, 

 outer edges thickly fringed with long hairs, last four with a short 

 irregular row of tubercles along their apical margin ; length 7^ 

 lines, 4| broad. 



(J. Gall unknown. 



Hah. — Rookwood, on the broad-leaved iron-bark, E. siderophloia 

 (J. J. Fletcher). 



This is a distinct species closely allied to B. munila, but the 

 difference in shape and in the number of the horns renders it very 

 easily recognisable. 



Brachyscelis pileata, Schrader, I.e. p. 3, PI. i. tig. 1, a, h, and I. 



J. Gall nari'owest at base of attachment to the twig, generally 

 growing with the apex inclined downwards towards the branch, 

 elongate-oval in form, but truncate at apex, which forms two 

 broad lips separated by the narrow slit^like apical orifice ; length, 

 14 to 16 lines; diameter, 7 lines; chamber containing coccid 

 narrow at base, jug-shaped at apex, wall thin. When immature 

 the gall is enveloped in a reddish cap covering the gall and 

 produced into a slender horn often several inches in length, which 

 appears to be an abnormal growth of the bark of the twig above 

 the burrowing coccid ; as the gall increases in size this envelope 

 becomes a dry papery substance, splits off at the base, and drops 

 off when the gall is about three-parts grown. 



9. Coccid dull brown to almost transparent; head and thoracic 

 segments rounded at base ; legs rather short ; tarsal claws black ; 

 abdominal segments narrow, not tapering, but broadly rounded 

 towards the apex, each segment ornamented at the apical sides 

 with a tuft of white silky hairs ; anal appendages situated on 

 either side of the broad anal segment, separated from each other 

 at base, long, slender, black, and each surmounted with three long 

 stout hairs ; upper side of head and thoracic segments much 

 depressed, often almost flat, covered with fine white hairs ; 



