SCALE INSECTS (" COCCID^ ") OF AUSTRALIA. 



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gunnii at Hamilton, E. regnans at Croydon and Mooroobunk (C. French, 

 junior), and in South Australia on several undetermined species of eucalypts. 



The female galls spring from a rounded base, singly or in clusters, on the 

 branchlets, and are oval, rounded, tapering to a truncate annulated tip with 

 the small circular apical orifice situated in a circular depression. The young 

 female galls are often elongate and cylindrical, with the tip truncated and 

 the apical orifice closed with a button-like cap that drops ofE as the gall 

 matures and swells out. These elongate, slender galls, if found without the 

 adult female galls, would never be considered as immature forms of this 

 variable species. Length up to Ij inches, but variable in form and size. 



Adult female broadly turbinate ; cephalic and thoracic segments not much 

 wrinkled; abdominal segments lightly clothed with fine hairs on the sides, 

 a few scattered spines on the first, and a regular band of spines on the following 

 ones ; anal appendages short and blunt, deflexed outward at the tips. Length , 

 I of an inch ; breadth, ^ of an inch. 



Male galls tubular, slender, bell-shaped at the apex, springing out from 

 the small branchlets, but sometimes on the leaves 

 length, and about yV of an inch in diameter. 



123. Apionior'pha conica. Cat. Coccidfp, p. 40. 



Under ^ an inch in 



Fig. 77. — Apiomorpha comcn, Froggatt. 



Ajnomorpha cucurhita. Fuller. 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 446, pi. xv, fig. 13. 1899. 

 This coccid comes from Kimberley, North-west Australia, where it was 

 collected upon Eucalyptus uvxinata. I have never seen this species. The 

 author says that when fresh the female galls are striped with white and green, 

 resembling a small gourd. 



