SCALE INSECTS ( * COCCIDiE") OF AUSTRALIA. 



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Apiomorpha pedunculata, Fuller (Fig. 91). 

 Brachyscelis pedunculata, Agrk. Gazette .V.-Sf.lF., vo'. vii, p. 212, pi. i, figs, 1-5. 189(». 

 BrachysceJis pedunculata, Froggatt, Auric. Gazette A'.*'. IF., vol. iii, p. 494. 1892. 

 Brachyscelis pedunculata, Fn ggalt, Natural Science, vol. v, p. 111. 1894. 



This handsome, stalked gall is found singly or in groups of three or four 

 upon the branchlets of Eucalyptus viminalis in the coastal districts near 

 Sydney, New South Wales, and on an undetermined species of eucal}qjtus 

 near Melbourne', Victoria (C. French, junior). 



Fig. 91.- 



■Apiomorph I. peiunruluta. Fuller, 

 (a) Female, (b) Male. 



Female galls, with the basal portion consisting of a slender, cylindrical 

 stalk, often longer than the elongate oval apical gall containing the coccid ; the 

 oval gall truncate at the tip, with the apical orifice in the centre. Length 

 of gall up to 3 inches, the stalk being about the same length as the apical 

 portion. Diameter, i inch in the centre. 



Male galls of the typical tubular form, very slender, with the apex very 

 much dilated, springing from the leaf or the surface of the twigs beside the 

 female galls. Length, \ inch. 



Adult female dull yellow, apical segments dark brown ; general form 

 elongate, oval ; cephalic and thoracic segments rounded ; the last thoracic 

 and abdominal segments long and tapering. Dorsal surface clothed with 

 scattered spiny hairs, with a broad dorsal stripe from the base to the apex 

 formed of fine reddish, thorn-like spines, spreading out into a transverse 

 band on the third and fourth abdominal segments, with a fringe of longer 

 spines on the following segments. Anal appendages cylindrical, tapering, 

 and separated at the extremities; clothed with long hairs. Ventral surface 

 much corrugated, legs and antennae well defined ; the hind pair of legs large, 

 projecting on the sides. Length, | inch. 



137. Apiomorpha pedunculata. Cat. Coccidae, p. 43. 



