364 NOTES ON THE FAMILY BRACHYSCELID^, 



opening out slightly at the apex ; upper side all clothed with fine 

 white hairs lightly scattered over the head and thoracic segments, 

 very close and dense on the abdominal segments, the latter with 

 a row of small acuminate tubercles along their lower margins ; 

 anal appendages surmounted on the tip with several fine hairs ; 

 5 lines long, 3 lines wide. 



(J. Gall 3 lines high, width ^ line ; bright red ; tubular, with a 

 disc-like rim at the apex. 



I have bred the male coccid from these galls, but under the 

 microscope I could not find any diflference between them and 

 those of B. pharetrata. 



Hah. — Botany and Berowera on E. hcemastoma ; Wollongong 

 on a stunted Eucalyptus (W. W. Froggatt). 



This is a rather small gall that might be taken for a small 

 variety of B. ovicola, but is very constant in its form; while the 

 female coccid is very distinct from that of the latter species. 



I obtained a great number of the galls of both sexes on the 

 leaves and twigs of a number of small stunted Eucalypts growing 

 on the hillside opposite the railway station at Wollongong ; 

 the twigs were covered with the little seed-capsule-like galls, 

 sometimes clustered together in bunches of a dozen or more, while 

 the leaves were completely aborted by the immense number of 

 male galls growing out of them. In other localities I have only 

 found them scattered in twos or threes on the branches. 



Brachyscelis variabilis, n.sp. PI. VII. fig. 2. 



^. Gall oval, sessile, growing directly from the stem, about two- 

 thirds from base constricted to a third, the apex curved inwards; 

 2^ inches high, 1| inches wide ; dome | inch high, 1 inch wide ; 

 walls of chamber above the base 7 lines in thickness ; top of true 

 gall almost flat at the apex, with a small circular orifice ; above 

 this the dome-shaped covering springs up, with thin walls enclosing 

 an irregularly-shaped cavity with a large opening on top above the 

 orifice of the lower chamber. 



The above measurements are taken from an exceptionally fine 

 specimen ; many ai'e much smaller, more rounded than pear-i 



