SCALE INSECTS ( ■ COCCIDJ: ■) OF AUSTRALIA. 



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Sphaerococcus leaii, Fuller (Fig. 6). 



Journal West Australian Bureau Agricidture, vol. iv, p. 1346, 18!)7. 

 Tra7is. Ent. Soc. London, p. 448, pi. xv, f. 21, 1899. 



The female coccids produce very curious sul)si)herical galls, with deeply 

 fluted sides, upon the branchlets of an undetermined spe(;ies of Casimrina, 

 at Perth, West Australia. 



Fig. e.—Sjiha 



These galls are greyish brown, and appear to be composed of a number of 

 distinct sections, but are solid and united on the inner surface of the basal 

 cavity, with the opening at the apex. Height, about half an inch. U'^ually 

 found in little clusters of four or five, they might be easily mistaken for 

 aborted seed cones of the sheoak, upon which they are developed. 



Adult female pink, general form globular, filling the gall chamber, showing 

 slight segmentation; no anal tubercules. Dorsum bearing yellow spines. 



371. Sphaerococcus leaii. Cat. Coccida?, p. 371. 



Sphaerococcus leptospermi, Maskell (Fi^. 8). 

 Trans. New Zexdand Institute, vol. xxvi, p. 92, f. 4-14, 1893. 

 This species form galls upon the branchlets of the coastal leptosperm 

 {Leptospermmn laevigatum), common about the coast at Botany, N.S.W. 



The galls are produced like a swollen elongated blister or raised excres- 

 cence ii^ the surface of the branchlet, the wood and bark swelling up on either 

 side of the bur'ed coccid, which rests in the cleft between, which forms a 



