BY W. W. FROGGATT. 6 1 1 



The description given of the specimens bred from B. munita 

 woukl not differ in any particular from that of this species. 



Hah. — Botany, on E. sieberiana ; Berowera, on E. corymhosa ; 

 Mossman's Bay, on E. capitellata (W. W. Froggatt) ; Newcastle, 

 E. sp. (R. Thornton) ; Cambewarra, on E. sp. (W. Bauerlen). 



This is known as the "cockscomb gall," from the cock's-comb-like 

 appearance of the male gall mass. It is not an uncommon gall 

 about Sydney, and I have watched a patch of trees at Botany 

 attacked by this coccid, from which I obtained galls for several 

 years, but they have been all destroyed by the larvae of Haplonyx 

 Hopei, which get inside and feed upon the female galls. 



Of parasitic Coleoptera (Family Curculionidcs) I have bred 

 Haplo7iyx Hojyei, Bolim., from the galls of this Brachyscelid. 



Schrader in his paper gives a drawing of the male galls of this 

 species on the twigs, but there must be some mistake, as I am 

 certain that the male galls ai-e always produced upon the females. 



Brachyscelis Thorntoni, n.sp. (PI. VI. fig. 6.) 



9. Gall small, slightly rounded at base, cylindrical, faintly 

 ribbed on the sides, narrowing towards the apex, which is trun- 

 cate, the apical orifice small, encircled by a slight ridge ; length 

 8 lines, diameter If lines ; chamber containing coccid conical, 

 walls solid but thin. 



9. Coccid pale yellow, cylindrical, rounded at top of head and 

 thoracic segments, which are much wrinkled ; legs small ; abdo- 

 minal segments narrow, divisions sharply defined, lightly fringed 

 with hairs on the outer margins • coming to a sharp point at anal 

 segment ; anal appendages long, slender, distinctly separated at 

 the base, but close together until close to the tips, where they 

 open outwards, tips truncate ; upper side shining, head and 

 thoracic segments with a few scattered hairs ; abdominal segments 

 fringed on the outer edges with short hairs; 1st segment spineless; 

 2nd and 3rd with a few scattered spines along the centre ; 4th 

 and 5th with a regular line of spines along the ajdcal edges ; 6th 

 with row of stout spines along the apex ; anal segment ferruginous, 

 slender ; length 4 lines. 



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