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a blunt point, but as it matures the upper portion cracks across and 

 drops off, or remains attached on one side of the gall proper, exposing the 

 cavity below the fracture. Length, up to 3 inches with the apical section 

 intact; diameter of gall, 1 inch. The adult galls, when the apical section 

 f-ills off, are wonderfully like the seed capsules or fruits of this eucalypt. 



Adult female coccid dull yellow, with legs, antennae, and apical segments 

 ferruginous, anal appendages black or dark reddish -brown. General form 

 broadly rounded, with the tip of the abdomen coming to a blunt point. 

 Length, slightly over ^ inch; diameter, just under i inch at the broadest 

 part. Dorsal surface somewhat truncate on the cephalic portion, flattened 

 on the thorax, showing three deep sutures; abdominal segments small, 

 sutures convex, the first two fringed with long spiny reddish hairs and a 

 few spines; the following four segments densely fringed with similar hairs 

 and slender spines, the latter in the living specimen almost hidden by the 

 hairs. Anal appendages very short, rounded, tapering to the apex, where 

 they open out. The whole surrounded with tufts of reddish hairs extending 

 beyond the tips of the anal segments. Ventral surface deeply corrugat:>d; 

 the first three abdominal segments smooth, fourth and fifth fringed with 

 spiny hairs, fifth impressed in the centre, showing a rugose area between it 

 and the thick fringe of hairs surrounding the base of the anal segment. 



The first specimens of this handsome gall were received from Mr. Banks, 

 of the U.S. Science Bureau at Manila, Philippines, who had received them 

 from a visitor who had been stopping at Port Darwin. When Mr. Hill wrote 

 to me from Darwin, I sent him a description of this coccid, which he soon 

 found and forwarded to me. 



Mr. Hill informs me that when freshly collected, the upper cavity of the 

 gall is often filled with a globule of honey-dew. 



Apiomorpha karschi, Riibsaamen. 

 Bed. Ent. Zeit., Bd. xxxix, p. 211. 



This species was described from a specimen in the Berlin Museum, probably 

 from Southern Queensland, on an undetermined species of eucalypt. It 

 comes close to Apiomorpha fletcheri. Fuller. The gall is similar, imbedded 

 in an irregular mass of woody tissue, apparently, from the figure given, on 

 a smooth-stemmed gum-tree. The author's description of the gall formation 

 agrees with that of A. fletcheri, but the differences in the spines and anal 

 appendages, if constant, should give it specific rank. 



Riibsaamen says : " Thorax globular, larger than the abdomen, which 

 narrows to the tip; anal segments covered with thickened integument. It 

 is nmch less hairy than other species ; legs well developed, and all the feet have 

 claws. The proboscis appears to consist of several articulations, with two 

 stout bristles. The anal segment very slender ; anal appendages moderately 

 thin and pointed, fiirnished on the outer edge with several pointed tubercules." 



131. Apiomorpha karschi. Cat. Coccidse, p. 42. 



