SCALE INSECTS (" COCCID^E ' ) OF AUSTRALIA. 133 



Adult female yellow, legs and anal appendages dark brown, broadly 

 turbinate; the constriction between the tlioracic and abdominal regions 

 very slight, tapering to the apex. Dorsal surface clotted with long yellow 

 spiny hairs, very much scattered above the abdominal segments; upon the 

 latter these hairs appear to spring from well-defined tubercles, and are thickest 

 upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and anal segments. Anal appendages broad at 

 the base, short, roughened on the outer margins, and divided by a slight 

 suture. Length; | inch. 



134. Apiomorpha munita. Cat. Cocci dee, p. 42. 



Apiomorpha ovicola, Schrader. 



Brachyscelis ovicola. Trans. Ent. Soc. N.S.W., vol. i, p. 5, pi. ii, figs. 3 a, e, f. 1862. 

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

 „ Signoret, Ann. Soc. Ent., France, vol. vi, p. 596. 1876. 



Froggatt, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., vol. vii, p. 367. 1892. 

 f/Iabra, Teppcr, Trans. Ro ,al Soc. S. Australia, p. 278, pi. iii, fig. 4. 1893. 

 ovicoloides, Tepper, Trans. Royal Soc. S. Australia, p. 277, pi. iii, 

 figs. 2 a, f. 1893. 



This gall is usually found singly upon the large white gums, such as 

 Eucalyptus hwmastoma and E. rostrafa, but when upon young trees gregarious,, 

 with the male galls (typical tubular, bell-mouthed forms) upon the leaves 

 and the females upon the twigs. Widely distributed over New South Wales ; 

 also reported on Eucalyptus melliodora, Stawell ; E. incrassata, Mallee^ 

 Victoria ; and E. gracilis. South Australia. 



Female galls green, smooth, oval, attached at base to the twigs, apical 

 orifice small, circular at the extremity, not depressed. Variable in size, and 

 many aborted by insect attacks. Height, 1-| inches ; diameter, | inch. 



Male galls thickly scattered over the leaves with a reddish-brown tint, 

 tubular, often curved, expanded at extremities. Height, | inch. 



Adult female pale yellow, apical segments and anal appendages ferruginous ; 

 turbinate, broadly rounded to the first abdominal segment, then tapering to- 

 a point. Dorsal surface lightly clothed with fine hairs, with a very distinctive 

 dorsal stripe of short, reddish, thorn-like tubercles, from the cephalic- 

 portion to the abdominal segment, where they cover the whole surface. 

 Anal appendages long, slender, in contact, covered with rounded tubercles 

 bearing spiny hairs; the sides fringed with short spines. Ventral surface 

 much corrugated, cephalic portion prominent; legs and antenn.ie well defined. 



135. Apiomorpha ovicola. Cat. Coccidee, p. 43. 



