SCALE INSECTS (" COCCIDiE ") OF AUSTRALIA. 



129 



1897. 



A'piomorj>ha maliformis, Fuller (Fig. 85 . 



Journal West Australian Bureau oj Arjrkulture, vol. iv, p. 134(5. 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 446, p!. xv, fij^. 14. 1897. 



These galls, according to Fuller, are usually, though not always, found 

 growing upon the flower-buds of Eucah/ptus patens, a common gum about 

 Swan River, Western Australia. . I have a fine series of specimens from Dr. 

 Cleland from the same locality on the same species of gum-tree, but most of 

 them are on the branchlets. 



Fig 85. — Api;inorpha maliformis, Fuller. 

 Female. 



Adult female gall subspherical, variable in size and form, sessile, greyish 

 brown, broadly rounded to the summit, where it is depressed, with the small 

 circular anal orifice in the centre of the depression. Average height, 1 inch ; 

 diameter at summit, 1^ inches. Walls of gall thick, composed of fleshy 

 tissue, with the elongate oval gall chamber in the centre enclosed in a hard shell. 



Adult female coccid pear-shaped, yellow, with the anal segment reddish 

 brown and chitinous. Dorsal surface clothed with spiny hairs scattered 

 on the abdominal and thoracic segments, longer and thicker on the 

 abdominal; the first three abdominal segments with transverse bands of 

 stout, reddish spines; the following four segments fringed along the hind 

 margin with stouter spines. Anal appendages close at base, with distinct 

 division to the tips, where they are deflected outward; short, broad at base, 

 tapering and rugose to the tips, which are swollen with a stout tubidar spine 

 near the extremity, clothed with fine hairs. Anal ring defined. Legs larsre, 

 thickened, claws short. 



132. Apiomorpha maliformis. Cat. Coccidoe, pi 42. 

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