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SCIENCE BULLETIN, No. 18. 



Apiomorpha minor, Froggatt (Figs. 86 and 87). 



Brachyscelis minor, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., vol. vji., p. 363, p'. v!, fig. 1. 

 ,, „ Agric. Gazette N.S.W., vol. ix, p. 491. 1898. 



1892. 



The type specimens were collected on Eucalyptus hcBmasloma, at WoUongong; 

 New South Wales. I have also had them from other localities in New South 

 Wales, and from Mr. C. French, junior, Warrandyte, Victoria, on E. poly- 

 anthema. 



Female coccid gall small, oval, broadest at the base, attached directly 

 to the twig, often in clusters of four or five ; contracted on the sides to the 

 truncate apex ; the small circular apical orifice placed in the centre of a "flight 

 depression. Height slightly over h inch, diameter at widest girth ^- inch. 



Fig. 86. — Apiomorfha minor, Froggatt. 



Fig. 87. — Apiomorpha minor, var., Froggatt. 



Adult coccid dull yellow, broadly turbinate; dorsal surface clothed with 

 fine hairs, thickest on the abdominal segments, together with small spines 

 along the hind margins; anal appendages small, short, close together to 

 tips, where they open out. Ventral surface clothed with fine hairs, legs 

 slender, abdominal segments very regular, tapering to the tip. Length 

 under ^ inch. 



Male galls of the usual tubular form, with the apex expanded; dull red, 

 thickly massed together on the leaves. Height, \ inch. 



133. Apiomorpha minor. Cat. Coccidae, p. 42. 



