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legs broken short, or with the tarsal joint withered up or wanting. 

 The gall at this stage is dome-shaped above, with the basal orifice 

 surrounded with a raised ring. 



(J. Galls 1 J to 2 lines high, produced upon the leaf in wart-like 

 excrescences, broadest at base, tapering to a truncate tip, with a 

 key-hole or slit-like apical orifice, sometimes in clusters of two or 

 three, but often on the younger leaves, forming the whole leaf 

 into a solid fleshy mass of galls all confluent at the base, but 

 oi)ening out individually at the apex, tinted at the tips with pale 

 pink and covered with a whitish bloom. 



(J. Coccid pale red,~ with white opaline wings ; enveloped in a 

 larval sac before emergence. Antennae long, tubular, composed 

 of nine joints; 1st stout, truncate; 2nd very short, obconical ; 

 3rd of about the same length but irregular in shape and rounded 

 at base and apex ; 4th-8th of a uniform length, constricted and 

 rounded at apex ; 9th about half the length, with a blunted tip. 

 Head and antennee covered with long hairs ; dorsal eyes round 

 and prominent, ventral eyes very close together ; front of head 

 square, rounded behind the eyes. Thorax smooth, shining, round, 

 broadest in front ; legs long, slender ; tarsi simple ; underside of 

 thorax and legs covered with short hairs; wings large, granulated, 

 showing rich opaline reflections ; the longitudinal vein well back 

 from the margin of the wing ; the discoidal branch long, stout, 

 rounded, forming an elongate oval in the centre of the wing ; 

 abdomen with fir.st joint short, almost as broad at base as at 

 thorax, the others tapering towards the apex, each irregularly 

 corrugated ; 2nd broad and stout ; 3rd and 4th shorter ; the rest 

 longer and slender, tapering to the tip, the last forming a sharp 

 lance-like tip, readily moved backwards and forwards when the 

 insect is alive ; the last two joints with the movable tip pale 

 yellow. 



Hah. — Napoleon Reef, near Bathurst, N.S.W., on Eucalyptus 

 sp. (W. S. C, Ross and W. W. Froggatt). In consequence of the 

 larger trees in the vicinity of the mine having been cut down for 

 firewood, there was a fine growth of young foliage from the 

 stumps admirably adapted for such insect attacks. 



