212 NOTES ON THE FAMILY BRACHYSCELIDiE, 



9. Coccid 2 lines long, varying much in size ; no signs of legs, 

 eyes, or antennae ; body consisting of a shapeless, irregularly 

 round; wrinkled, pale yellow mass ; anal appendage stout, cylin- 

 drical, dark ferruginous, surrounded at the base by a flat ferru- 

 ginous ring, apex of anal appendage tubular, with three slender 

 finger-like projections, which always hold a small lump of gummy 

 secretion, which, together with the tips of the caliper-like fingers, 

 fit into and closely fill up the basal orifice. 



^, Larv^ living with the female larvae in the female galls, in 

 which they come to maturity; I have generally found from twenty 

 to thirty in a mature female gall remaining long after the female 

 larvse have escaped, pale pink to salmon red, rounded at the head 

 and tapering to a point at the tip of the abdomen ; antennse stout 

 at base, short, 4-jointed, and pointed at apex ; abdominal segments 

 broad and distinct, legs stout, long, and terminating with two 

 hooked claws. 



g. Coccid with the head and thorax crimson to reddish-salmon 

 colour ; legs and antenna3 semitransparent ; dorsal eyes black, 

 globular, small, and very close together ; antennae short, com- 

 posed of nine elongate oval joints slightly stalked at the base, 

 wdth the last two somewhat tapering, thickly clothed with short 

 stout hairs ; front of head square across, constricted at the eyes, 

 which are placed behind the base of the antennae, swelling out 

 into a rounded lobe behind them, truncate at the junction with 

 the prothorax ; the latter narrow ; mesothorax broad, with the 

 central lobe large, almost square, horn-coloured, and marked with 

 two crescent-shaped lines in front ; metathorax sloping at apex ; 

 wings opaline, semiopaque, with broad stout longitudinal and trans- 

 verse discoidal veins, the whole closely covered w4th fine short 

 hairs ; legs long, slender, and very hairy : abdomen semitrans- 

 parent, long, slender, lance-shaped ; 1st joint longest, slightly 

 constricted at the apex; 2nd and 3rd medium, shorter, cylin- 

 drical ; 4th half the length of third ; 5th and 6th very small and 

 short; 7th lance-shaped, pointed, and moved readily from side to 

 dide during life. 



^ah. — The galls are plentiful in the neighbourhocd of Sydney, 

 growing upon the leaves of Eucalyj^tiis corymhosa, and in my 



