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Adult female coccid orange yellow; anal segments reddish brown; tur- 

 binate, with the abdominal segments tapering to the extremity. Dorsal 

 surface with the whole of the epidermis covered with short reddish 



thorn-shaped spines, thickest in the 

 centre, producing a dorsal stripe, 

 forming apical fringes of longer 

 spines on the abdominal segments. 

 Fuller says, "Epidermis with many 

 small multiocular pores, and clothed 

 with numerous short hairs." Anal 

 appendages slender, rugose, taper- 

 ing, opening out at the apex, with a 

 short blunt spine on the outer 

 margin near the tip. Antennae and 

 legs aborted. 



Male galls tinted with yellow, 

 produced upon the leaves, short 

 cylindrical tubes; ribbed on the 

 sides, dilated at the apex. Height, 



Fig. S2. —Apiotncrpha hehnsii, Fuller. 



^ inch. 



Fuller does not give any measurements of the adult female. 

 130. Apiomorpka helmsii. Cat. Coccidse, p. 42. 



Apiomorpka hiUi, n.sp. (Figs. 83 and 84). 

 This remarkable species is found in the neighbourhood of Darwin, North 

 Australia, in all stages of growth in July, upon the branchlets of the 

 " woolly-butt " {Eucah/plus miniala). 



Female galls broad- 

 ly ova), the apex 

 truncate, with the 

 outer margin forming 

 a rampart round a 

 circular pit, \ inch in 

 depth, where there is 

 a flattened reddish 

 floor, in the centre of 

 which is the small 

 circular apical ori- 

 fice. In the earlier 

 stages of the gall's 

 growth the apex of 

 the gall runs up into Fig. ^z.^Apiomonha hm. Froggatt. 



