342 NOTES ON THE FAMILY BRACHYSCELlDiE, 



in whicli is situated the minute circular apical orifice ; walls of 

 chamber thin; always formed upon the leaves, generally covering 

 them with isolated galls, but sometimes so close together that 

 they abort the leaves. 



9. Coccid (first stage) bright yellow, smooth, shining, elongate, 

 top-shaped, with the anal segments tapering to a point ; attached 

 by the mouth to the floor of the gall chamber ; fore and middle 

 pairs of legs rudimentary, hind pair long and slender. 



9. Coccid (second stage) reddish-yellow, covered on the upper 

 side with curly white hairs, interspersed with longer straighter 

 hairs forming a fine fringe round the outer margin of the coccid ; 

 segments rounded, well defined, fringed on the lower margins with 

 close long hairs, and forming a rounded tail at the tip of abdo- 

 men ; underside rounded at the head, the outer portion of head 

 and thoracic segments forming an overlapping rim ; traces of 

 rudimentary antennse, fore and middle legs ; hind legs stout, 

 distinct, dull yellovv blotched with black, tarsi excessively elon- 

 gated, slender, cylindrical, truncate at the tip, and often twice 

 the length of the coccid. 



Q. Mature coccid fixed on the underside to the base of the gall 

 in a similar manner to 0, Maskelli, with the long tarsi curled 

 up over its back and almost reaching to the extremity of the 

 chamber. 



(J. Galls green, \ line high, 2 lines in diameter ; rounded 

 excrescences irregularly wrinkled on the summit, with an irregu- 

 larly rounded basal orifice situated in a brownish wart on the 

 underside of the leaf ; galls clustered together on a leaf by 

 themselves, but sometimes scattered about among the female 

 galls. 



^. Coccid salmon-pink ; head square in front, rounded behind, 

 broader than long; dorsal eyes globular; antennas long and stout; 

 covered with long plumose hairs, the 1st joint short, cylindrical ; 

 2nd obconical, short; 3rd cylindrical, longest; 4th-8th of uniform 

 length ; 9th short, rounded at tip : thorax broad, marked with 

 reddish lines; legs very hairy; wings large, white, semitrans- 

 parent, with a granulated appearance, the transverse and discoidal 



