370 NOTES ON THE FAMILY BRACHYSCELIDiE, 



rounded and rising up on either side to a level with the top of 

 first segment, which is depressed at top ; legs small ; abdominal 

 segments very small, lightly fringed on the margins with fine 

 hairs, and coming to a point above the anal appendages, which 

 are ferruginous, black at tips, short and thick, lying close together, 

 and rugose on their outer margins ; upper side of abdominal 

 segments covered lightly with fine hairs and each armed with a 

 row of fine tubercles ; length 6 lines, 4^ wide. 



^. Gall unknown. 



Hab.—AlMong, N.S.W., on E. sp. (W. W. Froggatt). 



These galls were obtained by me in considerable numbers upon 

 the twigs and stems of a stunted Eu(ialypt at Allalong, in the 

 Maitland district. I have never seen any other specimens. 



Brachyscelis pharetrata, Schrader, I.e. p. 4, pi. i. fig. 2, o-s ; 

 pi. ii. fig. 3, g. 



2. Gall springing from the leaf, generally on the midrib, narrow 

 at base of attachment, swelling out in the middle and coming to a 

 more or less conical point at apex; the apical orifice small; length 

 5 lines, 2^ diameter. 



9. Coccid yellow, obese, top-shaped ; the head and thoracic 

 segments spherical ; legs small ; abdominal segments very narrow 

 and regular, thinly clothed with fine hairs on the underside, but 

 much thicker on the upper side; no spines or tubercles on the 

 upper side of the abdominal segments ; the anal appendages black, 

 short, deeply divided ; tips thick and stout ; length 3^ lines, 

 diameter 2J lines. 



(J. Galls in large irregular mass appearing upon the side of 

 the female gall after it is nearly mature ; it is generally smooth 

 on the outside, which consists of an overlapping sheath, often when 

 full grown brilliantly tinted with red and yellow colours ; in this 

 sheath are a mass of small tabular cells opening outwards, each 

 containing a male larva, the whole being five or six times the 

 bulk of the small female gall ; length of tubes 3 lines. 



(^. Coccid pale yellow with large grey wings and black eyes ; 



