120 SCIENCE BULLETIN, No. 18. 



Female galls smooth, hanging down, ellipsoidal, constricted at the base, 

 the apex truncated, slightly dilated, with the apical orifice sunk at the sum- 

 mit in a slight depression. Length, 1^ inches ; greatest diameter 0-9 inch. 

 Adult female not described. Fuller says that at first he considered it a 

 variety of Tepper's Apiomorpha regular is. 



124. Apiomorpha cu^urhita. Cat. Coccidse, p. 41. 



Apiomorpha dipsaciformis, Froggatt. 

 Brachyscelis dipsaciformis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., p. 202, pi. xix, fig. 1. 1S95. 



The unique type specimen was sent on the twigs of a slender-leaved 

 Eucalypt from Queensland by the Government Botanist to Mr. Tepper, of 

 the Adelaide Museum, with no exact locality stated. 



Female galls sometimes solitary, but in others clustered in groups of two 

 or three, springing from a flattened button-like excrescence on the twig; 

 dark, reddish-brown, oval, ^ an inch in height and about ^ of an inch in 

 diameter. The whole surface to the rounded apical orifice covered with 

 spiny bracts, turning downward like a small teasle. 



Advdt coccid pale yellow, broad, turbinate, clothed with fine hairs, thickest 

 on the sides and forming a brush at the anal "extremity. Legs short, with 

 small claws ; abdominal segments with a band of long slender spines and 

 long hairs ; anal appendages black, short, stout, cylindrical, divided in the 

 centre and opening out at the tips, which are slightly pointed. 



125. Apiomorpha dipsaciformis. Cat. Coccidoe, p. 41, 



Apiomorpha duplex, Schrader. 

 Brachyscelis duplex. Tram. Ent. Soc. N.S. W., vol. i, p. 2, 1862, pi. ii, figs. A, h, 1, o, s. 

 Verh. z. b. Ges. Wien, p. 160. 1863. 

 „ „ Signoret, Ann. Soc. Ent., France, vol. vi, p. 596. 1876. 



„ „ Froggatt, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., p. 358. 1892. 



„ „ „ Natural Science, vol. v, p. 111. 1894. 



„ „ Agric. Gazette N.S.W., vol. ix, p. 490. 1898. 



This remarkable gall springs directly out of the side of the branchlet of 

 several species of eucalypts, and is not uncommon in Ihe Sydney district 

 and northward to Newcastle and in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. 



Female gall sessile, four-sided, swelling out into a green four-sided elongated 

 ridged mass, variable in size but averaging 1|- inches in diameter and 2^ 

 inches in length from the base to the apical orifice, which forms a narrow 

 slit between the two flattened curled leaf-like horns, often 7 or 8 inches 

 in length, that are produced on either side of the solid basal gall. 



Adult female golden yellow, thickly enveloped in floury secretion and 

 clothed with fine hairs. Somewhat flattened on the vertical surface, with 

 rows of spines on the dorsal surface of the abdominal segments, together 

 with tufts of long white hairs. Anal appendages long, slender, pointed, with 

 three long hairs at the extremities pointing outward, ^^ength of coccid, 

 1 inch; width at centre of thorax, | inch. 



