SCALE INSECTS (" COCCID^E ") OF AUSTRALIA. 121 



Male galls short, four-sided, opening out at the tips, springing from the 

 leaves or on the horns of the female gall. Length, J inch. 

 126. Apiomorpha duplex. Cat. Coccidae, p. 41. 



Apiomorpha excupida, Fuller (Fig. 78). 

 Brachyscelis excupula, Agric. Gazette N.S. W., vol. vii, p. 217, pi. iii, figs. 4-7. 1896. 



This species was first recorded from Port Stephens, New South Wales, 

 on an undetermined species of eucalypt. I have had several fine series 

 from the Tweed River, New South Wales. 



This species was described and figured from the galls alone. Fuller gave 

 no description of the coccid. I have retained his suggested name. Female 

 galls often in masses on the branchlets of the gum-tree, the basal portion not 

 unlike the cup of an acorn, from which springs out the egg-shaped gall, the 

 whole surface of which is covered with flattened slender tapering bracts 

 forming a regular ring round the apical orifice, which is small and circular. 

 } eight of gall, about 1 inch; width about i inc'i. 



Fig. 19.— Apiomorpha excupula, FilHor. 



Adult female yellow, very broadly turbinate, with the tip of the abdomen 

 coming to a fine point ; thickly clothed with fine long yellow hairs on the 

 sides of the lower abdominal segments, and forming a brush extending beyond 

 the anal appendages. Antennse very well defined, four-jointed; legs short 

 and stout; the last thoracic and the first three abdominal segments with a 

 few scattered reddish spines; fourth and fifth with longer scattered spines 

 forming tufts on the outer margins ; sixth small, with a large bunch of long 

 spines and hairs on either side. Anal appendages bright reddish-brown, 

 finely rugose, broad at the base, fitting into the centre of the last abdominal 

 segment, with a central depressed line at the base, above which is a central 

 saddle-shaped plate, then a narrow slit, then the tails come together and at 

 the extremity open out at a \ -shaped angle, blunt and rounded at the tips, 

 arcuate on the outer margins. Length of coccid, slightl}' over | inch. 



Male gall slender, slightly roughened tubes with no distinct expansion at 

 the apex, but may be immature. Springing from the side of the basal cup 

 of the gall. About \ inch in length. 



129. Apiomorpha excupula. Cat. Coccidae, p. 41. 



