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turn outward, forming a regular star when viewed from beneath : in many 

 others the basal row of bracts turn upward and form a regular calyx round 

 the base of the next ring of seven or eight spined bracts ; above this is a 

 second row of similar bracts, above which, tapering to the apex, are the 

 elongated tips of all the internal slender tubular sections of the gall, in the 



Fig. 15. — CjiUmlfococcus itpuiifeni-s. 



centre of which is the cylindrical tube containing the female coccid. All 

 these bracts can be removed one by one, until the central tubular one is 

 reached containing the female coccid. 



Adult female so similar in general form and structure to that of C. amplior 

 that Maskell states that it wovdd be difficult to separate them on the female 

 coccid. In one of the plates of Scott's " Australian Lipidoptera and their 

 Transformations," the artist has depicted a spray of Casuarina bearing these 

 galls, evidently under the imjiression they were the true seed ca])sules of the 

 sheoak. 



360. Cylindrococcus spiniferus. Cat. Coccida?, p. 84. 



