SCALE INSECTS (" COCCID^ ") OF AUSTRALIA. 139 



Apioniorpha rugosa, Froggatt (Fig. 95). 



Brachyscelis rugosa, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., p. 369, pi. viii, fig. 5. 1892. 

 Agrk. Gazette N.S.W., vol. ix, p. 492. 1898. 



Specimens collected at Allalong, near Maitland, New South Wales, 

 on an undetermined species of eucalyptus. 



Female galls sessile, springing 

 from the branchlets; general form 

 squat, hemispherical ; outer surface 

 rugose, irregularly ridged, forming 

 a spongy sheath beneath, enclosing 

 a thin hard shell forming a centre 

 for the coccid chamber. Summit 

 depressed; apical orifice small, cir- 

 cular. Height and diameter, | inch. 



Adult female diill yeUow, broadly 

 turbinate, head and thoracic seg- 



, -111 ,1 ,1 Fig. 95.— Apiomorpha rugosa, Froggatt. 



ments much wrinkled on the ventral (Female) 



surface. Dorsal surface fringed with 



fine hairs produced into tufts at the apex ; abdominal segments small, fringed 



with spiny hairs, and small spines. Anal appendages black in contact, 



roughened on the outer margins, blunt. Length, | inch. 



142. Apiomorpha rugosa. Cat. Coccidse,. p. 44. 



Apiomorpha sessilis, Froggatt. 



Brachyscelis sessilis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., p. 203, pi. xix, fig. 2. 1895. 

 „ „ Agric. Gazette N.S.W.,Yo\.ix, J). 491. 1898. 



These galls were obtained near Newcastle, New South Wales, on an un- 

 determined species of eucalyptus. 



Female galls growing directly out of the branchlets, the base buried in 

 the tissue, which forms an oval swelling surrounding them. Galls cylindrical 

 to the apex, which is truncate, with a small cone in the centre surrounding 

 the small circular apical orifice. Height of gall abore the basal swelling, 

 I inch. I 



Adult female dull yellow, clothed with fine hairs, broadly turbinate. 

 Dorsal surface covered with scattered tubercles, which form transverse rows 

 of short dark spines on the abdominal segments, thickest upon the anal 

 ones. Anal appendages very short, broad at the base, in contact to near 

 the extremities where they open out. Ventral surface very much wrinkled, 

 antennae and legs very small, basal joints of hind legs almost globular. 

 Length, -^ inch. 



143. Apiomorpha sessilis. Cat. Cocci dse, p. 44. 



