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Adult female yellow, with the anal appendages black tipped with reddish 

 brown. Broadly turbinate, anal abdominal segments slender. Dorsal sur- 

 face clothed with fine hairs on the cephalic and thoracic area; those upon 

 the latter more spiny ; the first four abdominal segments clothed with spiny 

 hairs, the following three reddish brown, with a transverse band of dark 

 reddish-brown spines and interspersed hairs fringing the sides. Anal appen- 

 dages black, rugose and broad at the base, opening out into a broad cleft 

 about half-way down, and the tails produced into fine points, bearing scattered 

 stout spines and long hairs. 



Apiomorpha globosa, n.sp. 



The female galls formed on the branchlets of the red-gum {Eucalyptus 

 rostratn), on the river banks near Hay, New South Wales. 



A squat, broadly oval gall, springing from a button-like base on the side 

 of the twigs; sides rounded to the slightly flattened apex; surface much 

 cracked and roughened, with a small circular apical orifice. Height, 

 slightly over | inch, and as broad across. Large numbers of these galls 

 are aborted into irregular round masses of woody tissue, due to the action of 

 hymen op terous parasites in the gall and wood tissue. 



Adult female coccid dull yellow ; anal appendages black or reddish 

 brown. Length, slightly under ^ inch. General form turbinate, the cephalic 

 portion broadly rounded, abdominal segments tapering. Dorsal surface 

 clothed with fine scattered hairs, with a few fine spines lightly scattered 

 over the thoracic segments, but forming regular transverse bands of large 

 reddish spines down the centre of the abdominal segments, interspersed with 

 spiny hairs. Anal appendages red to- black, short, broad at base, with the 

 tips coming to a point, a slight narrow cleft between them, then in contact 

 and then again turning outward at the extreme tips; the outer margins 

 fringed with short angular spines, the last ones so close to the tips that they 

 look as if cleft; the surface finely granulated. Legs short, but broad; 

 claws small. 



Apiomorpha helmsii. Fuller (Fig. 82). 



Journal WeM Australian Bureau of Agricuhure, vol. iv, p. 1346. 1897. 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 447, p!. xv, fig. 12. 1899. 

 Found upon the branchlets of an undetermined species of eucalypt near 

 Perth, Western Australia. 



Female galls clustered in twos and threes along the side of the twig ; sessile, 

 narrow at the base, swelling out and rounded on the sides, with from five to 

 seven distinct ribs, coming round to a truncate tip, from the centre of which 

 springs out a little cone, at the tip of which is the small anal orifice. The 

 ridged sides of this gall give it a very striking appearance. Height, up to 

 1 inch; diameter in centre, J inch. 



