.SCIEI^CB BULLETIN, No. 19. 



Genus XL IX. Fseudopsylla, n.g. 



The female cbccids produce i?olid woody galls on tlie branchlets of eiicaly pts 

 with an irregular opening on the upper surface. 



Adult female coccid pea-shaped, circular, with two pair of stout legs ; 

 iintennse composed of six segments, third very long, sixth verj' small, anal 

 tubercles wanting ; anal ring without hairs ; legs and body clothed with 

 fine hairs or spines. These galls, in which the females rest, are very like 

 those produced by T rozia solida (a Psyllid), which cannot emerge until the 

 apical surface of the gall splits. 



PseudopstjUa Jursutus, n.sp. (Fig. 2). 



This curious gall-making coccid comes form Darwin, Northern Tei-ritory, 

 where Mr..C4. F; Hill collected it upon an undetermined species ot eucalyptus. 

 Irregular, rounded, basket-shaped galls, sessile, walls thick, mth apical 

 opening large and very irregular. 



Adult female coccid deep red ; legs and antenna? 

 brownish yellow : tarsi and claws lighter coloured 

 than the tibipe ; with floury secretion and flocculent 

 matter in the gall chamber. Diameter, one-sixth of an 

 inch. Convex above, concave beneath, but swelling 

 out into a rounded form, with distinct segmental 

 divisions. Antenna? long, slender, first joint short, 

 broad, second cylindrical, about as long as the first, 

 third about four times the length of the second, fourth 

 not more than half the length, fifth short, sixth very 

 short and small. A dark area like a circular spiracle 

 in front of the base of each antennae. Legs stout, 

 tibi» and tarsi fringed on the inner edge, with short 

 black spines, margin with a few fine hairs ; tarsal claws 

 short, sharply curved inwards, digitules long, slender 

 hairs. Dorsal surface thickly covered with short spines ; 

 circular orifices, and short blunt rods, densest on the 

 abdominal segments. The anal ring without hairs : 

 anal tubercles wanting, and the anal segment rounded. 



Immature female with three pair of legs, all similar in form, })iit the middle 



pair lighter coloured than the others. 



Fig. 2.—Pscii(l<, 

 hirxKtuK. 



