98 A MANUAL OF DANGEROUS INSECTS. 



Tryphocharla masters! Fascoe. 

 (Masters' Gum Borer. Cerambycidse. Coleoptera.) 



Hust^: Eucalyptus amygdalina, E. globulus. 



Injury: Bores in the wood, the larvae taking several years for development. 



Dfsrription: Adult over an inch long, with long antennae, brown, with broad yellow 

 elytral band; thorax laterally dentate. Pupa elongate white. Larva cyliadrical 

 yellowish, with small head and broader prothorax, chitinous. 



Distribution: Australia. 

 French, C. Handbook of Destructive Insects of Victoria, pt. 4, 1909, pp. 98-101, 



pi. 76. 



Simla (emoralis Saunders. 



(Apple-gum Borer. Cerambycidee; Coleoptera.) 



Host: Eucalyptus stuartiana. 



Injury: Bores in the trunk, causing much damage. A severe scar appears on the 

 surface of the bark where the burrow commences. 



Description: The sexes are different in appearance, the male having antennae much 

 larger than the body; the female antennae considerably shorter than the body. Elytra 

 with yellow band at base, remainder of elytra brown. Head, thorax and tip of ab- 

 domen yellow in female; head and center of prothorax brown in male. Larva of 

 female much broader, less attenuate, and with larger prothorax than in adult female. 



Distribution: Australia. 



French, C. Handbook of Destructive Insects of Victoria, pt. 4, 1909, pp. 110-113, 



pi. 78. 



Strongylorhlnus ochraceus Schaum. 



(Red Gum-tree Weevil. Ciirculionidae; Coleoptera.) 



Host: Eucalyptus melliodora. 



Injury: Larvae bore in twigs causing gall-like deformation. Very injurious. 

 Description: A reddish-brown weevil about 12 mm. long with short, stout beak. 

 Larva curved, legless, white, makes a cone shaped burrow in the wood. 

 Distribution: Australia. 



French, C. Handbook of Injurious Insects of Victoria, pt. 4, 1909, pp. 128-130, 

 pi. 82. 



B. OTHER IMPORTANT EUCALYPTUS INSECTS. 



HEMIPTERA. 

 CoGcldse: 



Armored — 



Aspidiotus {Aonidiella) miniatse Green; Australia; Eucalpptus miniata. 



Aspidiotus alatus Froggatt; Australia; Eucalyptus rostrata. 



Aspidiotus confusus Froggatt; Australia. 



Aspidiotus tasmanix Green; Australia. 



Chionaspis frenchi Green; Australia. 



Lecaniodiaspis convexus Froggatt; Australia. 



Lecaniodiaspis frenchi Froggatt; Australia. 



Lecaniodiaspis newmanni Froggatt; Australia. 

 Unarraored — 



Apiomorpha attenuata Froggatt; Australia. 



Apiomorpha bduerleni Froggatt; Australia 



Apiomorpha cahjcina Tepper; South Australia; Eucalyptus dunosa, E. oleosa. 



Apiomorpha conica Froggatt; Australia; Eucalyptus viminalis, E. uncinata. 



Apiomorpha duplex Schrader; Australia. 



Apiomorpha ellipsoidalis Tepper; Australia. 



Apiomorpha floralis Froggatt; Australia. 



Apiomorpha helmsii Fuller; Australia. 



Apiomorpha karschi Riibsaamen; Australia. 



Apiomorpha maliformis Fuller; Australia; Eucalyptus patens. 



Apiomorpha minor Froggatt; New South Wales; Eucalyptus hxmastoma. 



