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SCIENCE BULLETIN, No. 18. 



Apiomorpha pharetrata, Sclirader (Fig. 92). 



Brachyscelis pharetrata. Trans. Ent. .Soc. i\'.<S.ir., vo'. i, p. 4, pi. i, figs, o, s, pi. ii, 

 fig. 39. 1862. 

 Verh. Z. B. Ges. Wien. p\. iii. fig. 2. 1863. 

 Signoret, Ann. Soc. Ent., France, vol. vi, p. 595. 1876. 

 „ " Ffoggatt, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., p. 370. 1892. 

 „ „ Natural Science, vol. v, p. 111. 1894. 



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



This species has a wide range over the coastal districts of New South 

 AVales upon Eucalyptus sieheriana, E. corymbosa, and E. capitellata. From the 

 Alp.s, Victoria, Mr. C. French, junior, sent it upon E. pauciflora. 



Fig. 92. — Apiomorpha pharetrata, Schrader. 



Female galls generally spring from the stalk or midrib of the leaf, several 

 often clustered together twisting up the infested leaf. General form oval, 

 tapering at both extremities; surface roughened, apex with a rounded, 

 button-like tip, surrounding the circular apical orifice. Height-, up to \ 

 nch. Cockscomb-like growi:h or envelope of reddish tinted tissue, springing 

 out from the under side of the erect female gall, irregularly rounded on the 

 outer surface, and up to | inch in length and the same in diameter. 

 The inner surface is deeply convex and finely perforated with circular pits 

 containing the male larvae, several hundred in number. 



Adult female yellow, turbinate, abdominal segment small and tapering; 

 dorsal surface clothed with fine hairs fringing the abdominal segments; 

 slight transverse bands of short reddish spines on the first three, with closer 

 bands on the following abdominal segments. Anal appendages black, 

 stout at the base, slender and divided at the apex, with the tips turning in 

 towards each other. Length, \ inch. 



1 38. Apiomorpha pharetrata. Cat. Coccidae, p. 43. 



