SCALE INSECTS (" COCCID^ ") OF AUSTRALIA. 



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Adult female dull yellow, apex of fifth and sixth, segments and anal append- 

 ages black, cephalic and thoracic segments oval, abdominal segments slender, 

 tapering to the anal appendages, which are broad at the base, widely opening 

 out in the centre, the cylindrical tails turned outward with a small spine on 

 the inner margin near the tips ; dorsal surface, abdominal segments con- 

 stricted, third to sixth transversely barred with fine spines and fine hairs. 

 Length, h inch. 



Male galls with the female galls, slender, cylindrical; apex bel!-shaped, 

 ^ inch in length. 



118. Ayiomorjiha cUtenuata. Cat. Coccida?, p. 40. 



Apiotnorpha bduerleni, Froggatt Fig. 75). 



Brachyscelis bduerleni, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., p. 369, pi. vii, fig. 4. 1892. 

 Apiomorpha bduerleni, Riibsaamen, Berl. Ent. Zeit., Bd. xxxix, p. 200, p. xi, fig. 2. 

 1894. 



Specimens were collected upon an undetermined species of Eucalyptus 

 at Ballina, New South Wales. 



Female galls firmly attached at the base in clusters of two or three, to the 

 branches; broadly rounded, outer surface lightly ribbed, depressed on the 

 summit; the walls consisting of a double shell, the outer thick and soft, 

 inner one hard and thin, with often a slight cavity on either side of the rounded 

 small apical orifice. Height, | inch, width slightly over i inch. Chamber 

 broad, rounded, conical at apex. 



Adult female broadly turbin- 

 ate, much wrinkled, short, ab- 

 dominal segments coming to 

 a point, fringed with fine hairs 

 and a row of short spines ; anal 

 appendages black, short, thick- 

 ened at the base, close together 

 at base, slightly opened at tip. 

 Length slightly over | an inch, 

 and \ of an inch across the 

 centre of thorax. 



Male gall unknown. 



119. Apiomorpha hduerlem. 

 Cat. Coccidae, p. 40. 



Fig. 7f . — A J^iotiiorvha Imierleui, I'' logpatt . 

 (Female.) 



