368 NOTES ON THE FAMILY BRACHYSCELID^, 



top, widest in the middle ; central pair of legs, thoracic segments, 

 and head very distinct ; legs, eyes, and antennae ferruginous ; 

 abdominal segments narrow, rapidly tapering to a point, the last 

 four apical segments ferruginous; anal segment long and slender; 

 anal appendages black, deeply divided but cohering, long, slender 

 and pointed ; on the upper side all the abdominal segments covered 

 with tine hairs, the thoracic segments and first abdominal segments 

 covered with tine tubercles ; on the rest of the abdominal 

 segment these tubercles produced into small ferruginous coloured 

 spines, which form regular rows along the lower margins of these 

 segments, but half hidden by the tine hairs clothing the body ; 

 length 8 lines, diameter 4 J lines. 



(J. Gall formed on the leaves ; reddish-brown ; short and broad ; 

 2^ lines in height, slightly I'idged and of a uniform thickness ; the 

 apical opening large but not much dilated or bell-mouthed. 



Hab. — Wellington, N.S.W., on K sp. ; Bendigo, Victoria, on 

 B. gracilis, and on jE. leucoxylon (W. W. Froggatt). 



Of parasitic Coleoptera (Family Curculonidce) I bred a single 

 specimen of the beetle Haplonyx myrrhatus, Pascoe, from a gall 

 of this species obtained in the Whipstick scrub, near Bendigo, and 

 I noticed a large number of galls obtained in tliis locality bearing 

 circular openings through which the perfect beetles had already 

 escaped. 



This species has a wide range over the southern portion of 

 Australia, and forms its galls upon a number of very distinct 

 species of Eucalypts. Though not very common in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Sydney, it is often met with on the white gums in 

 the western country ; like most species it grows on the young 

 twigs, but I have several fine specimens growing out of young 

 flower buds. 



In consequence of the thick fleshy walls of the gall being much 

 mined by the attacks of parasitic Chalcids, they often swell out 

 into great puffy masses, losing all their fine oval contour, while 

 the helpless female is also subject to inquilines that either eat or 

 crowd- her out. 



