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Apiomorpha munita, Schrader (Figs. 88, 89, and 90). 



Brachyscelia munita. Trans. Ent. Soc. N.S.W., vol. i, p. 6, pi. ii. 1862. 

 Verh. Z. B. Ges. Wien, p. 160. 1863. 



„ ,, Sigiioret, Ann. Soc. Ent., France, vol. vi, p. 597. 1876. 



„ „ Froggatt, ProG. Linn. Soc. N.S. W., vol. vii {2nd series), p. 359. 1892. 



„ ,, Teppcr, Trans. Boijal Soc.S. Australia, p. 273, pi. iii, fig. 1. 1893. 



„ iricornis, Froggatt, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. W., vol. vii (2n'J series), p. 361. 1892. 



Apiomorpha cornifex, Riibsaamen, Berl. Ent. Zeit., Bd. xxxix, p. 205. 1894. 



This is one of the commonest and nioi§t variable species of the genus. I 

 believe that all the galls with "the four-sided angular formation, with horns 

 springing from each angle, belong to this species. Found over the greater 

 part of New South Wales ; at Botanj, upon Eucalyptus robusta ; in Victoria 

 by C. French, junior; Mallee Scrub, South Australia, Tepper; Perth, Western 

 Australia, Fuller. 



Fig. 88. — Apiomorpha munita. Schrader, 

 f Female.) 



Female galls very variable; sessile, base rounded, forming four angles 

 to the apex, from each of which springs out a slender curled horn ; in others 

 a more flattened, leaf-like appendage on each angle ; between the four horns 

 the central area flattened with the small apical orifice in the centre. Some- 

 times these galls stand out by themselves upon the twigs perfectly formed, 

 but very often they are aborted, matted together, and mixed up with the 

 male galls. Average height 1 inch, with the projecting horns from 2 to 

 4 inches in length. 



Male galls small irregular tubes, forming irregular masses matting the twigs 

 together, and often springing from the horns of the female galls; in some 

 cases forming a regular mass of pale pink tubes, like coral. 



