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thickly fringing the lower edges of the abdominal segment, smaller ones 

 scattered all over the surface. Though having a stout base, all these seem 

 to terminate in hairs and are not true spines. Anal appendages moderate in 

 length, very rugose, with blunt spines along the sides, broad, the base opening 

 out above, twisted and often turned over each other at the tips. 



I have examined a large amount of material, and think this is'a well-defined 

 species distinct from A. karschi, to which it is allied. 



131a. Apiomorpha karschi fletcheri. Cat. Coccidfe, p. 42. 



Apiomorpha jloralis, Froggatt Fig. 81 . 

 Brichjicdis /Ivjlis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., pi. viii, fig. 8, p . ix, figs. 9-10. 1898. 

 The type specimens came from Central Australia on an undetermined 

 species of eucalypt. 



Female gall springing from a cluster of 

 flower buds and growing alone like A. ovirola, 

 which they resemble in general form ; others 

 grow from the side of the branchlets. Broadly 

 rounded at the base, oval, tapering to the 

 apex, cone-shaped and truncated, but thick- 

 ened on the edge, forming a rim round the 

 small ci cular apical orifice, which is in 

 a slight depression. Height, \\ inches; 

 diameter, | inch. Adidt coccid pale yellow, 

 broadly turbinate, abdominal segments taper- 

 ing, segmental divisions distinct; dorsal sur- 

 face covered with fine short reddish spines, 

 forming a broad parallel band from the 

 cephalic segment to the anal appendages, 

 scattered on the abdominal segments, fringed 

 on the sides with fine hairs, and the spines thickest on the edge of the two 

 last segments ; anal appendages short, stout, close together, forming a blunt 

 tip, with two short spines on either side. On the ventral surface a prominent 

 but aborted mouth forming a raised tubercle. Legs large, stout; claws black. 

 Length of coccid, 1 inch. 



129. Apiomorpha ji oralis. Cat. Coccidse, p. 4L 



Apiomorpha frenchi, n.sp. (Fig. 90 — 4, 5, 6). 



This fine species was collected by Mr. C. French, junior, at Werribee River, 

 Victoria, upon a red-gum {Eucalyptus rostrata). 



Female galls sessile, growing out from the twigs in rows, slightly rounded 

 at the base, cylindrical, sharply cut off at the apex, which is convex with the 

 circular apical orifice in the centre. When immature, green and slightly 

 roughened, but later on as they reach maturity the outer surface turns brown 

 and dry, peeling ofi^ in flakes. Height, ^ inch ; diameter, slightly over J inch. 



Fig. 81. — Apioitwrphia fl'jrali.i, Froggatt. 



