366 NOTES ON THE FAMILY BRACK YSCELIDiE, 



times ovate ; variable in forir, fresh galls always of a bright 

 green colour with a granulated surface ; a growth of brown- 

 coloured wood forms several distinct rings at the apex surrounding 

 the apical orifice ; the latter small, circular, situated at bottom of 

 a shallow depression ; walls of chamber containing female solid, 

 chamber long, narrow, cylindrical; length 14 lines, diameter 8 

 lines. 



Q. Coccid dull yellow, head and thoracic segments rounded on 

 top, large and not much wrinkled ; legs short and thick, posterior 

 ones prominent ; abdominal segments attenuated towards the anal 

 segment, lightly clothed with hairs on the sides ; anal appendages 

 short and blunt, deflexed outwards, forming a triangle at tip ; the 

 head and thoracic segments on upper side rather flat; a few 

 scattered tubercles on the first abdominal segments, the rest of 

 segments each armed with a regular row of fine sharp spines; 

 length 9 lines, breadth 4 lines. 



^. Gall lai'ge and tubular, swelling out into a legular bell-shaped 

 apex ; generally growing out from the small twigs, but sometimes 

 upon the leaves; length 5 lines, diameter 1 line. 



ffab. — Yass, Goulburn, and Cooma, N.S.W., on E. viminalis 

 (W. W. Froggatt); Gippsland, Victoria, on E. sp. (F. 0. Hill), 



This gall is very plentiful in the Goulburn and Yass districts, 

 growing upon several of the White Boxes, and also has a much 

 wider range, as I have had a number sent me from Gippsland, 

 collected by my friend Mr. F. 0. Hill, of Melbourne. 



This species is much attacked by a small hymenopterous para- 

 site, the larvae of which, after destroying the female coccid, form 

 little oval wooden cocoons, often quite filling up the chamber ; 

 the lepidopterous larvae so common in B. munita are also common 

 in this gall. 



Of parasitic Coleoptera I have bred out several specimens of 

 that curious goat-like little Curculio Jlhadiiiosomus Lacordairei, 

 Pascoe, which I have also obtained from the female galls of B. 



