140 SCIENCE BULLETIN, No. 18. 



Apiomorpha slomiei, Froggatt (Fig. 96, — 1 and 2). 

 Brachyscelis sloanei, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., p. 373, p!. viii, figs. 1-4. 1898. 



Type specimens collected in the Wagga District, New South Wales, upon 

 the foliage and branchlets of an undetermined species of eucalyptus. 



Adult female gall long, slender, but very irregular in form, somewhat like 

 a swollen thickened short gall of A. pedunculata ; sometimes the basal portion 

 is smallest, cylindrical and swelling out into an elongate oval in the apical 

 half, with the apical orifice situated on a little nipple at the extremity. At 

 other times the gall is of a uniform thickness from the base at the twig, to 

 the extreme tip. Length, variable up to 2J inches ; diameter in the widest 

 part up to ^ inch. 



Adult female coccid about 1 inch in length, slender, rounded at the head, 

 and tapering to the anal appendages. Dorsal surface flattened on cephalic 

 area, marked with a ring of shallow depressions round the edge; thoracic 

 segments corrugated on apical margin; first five abdominal segments cylin- 

 drical, the fifth fringed with fine spines, sixth and seventh longer and fringed 

 with fine spines, eighth longer than the rest of the abdominal segments com- 

 bined, lightly covered with fine spines. Anal appendages black, close 

 together at the base, opening out at tips, 



144. Apiomorpha sloanei. Cat. Coccidae, p. 45. 



Apiomorpha strombylosa, Tepper (Fig. 96, — 3 and 4, and Fig. 97). 

 Brachyscelis strombylosa. Trans. Royal Soc. South Australia, vol. xvii, p. 277, pi. iv, 

 fig. 3. 1893. 

 „ . crispa. Fuller, Agric. Gazette N.S.W., vol. vii, p. 213, pi. ii, figs. 1-5. 



1896. 

 ,, strombylosa, Froggatt, Agric. Gazette N.S.W., vo!. ix, p. 492. 1898. 



YuMev, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, ip'.Uo. 1899. 



A common gall on the large-leaved ironbark (Eucalyptus siderophloia) 

 in the neighbourhood of Sydney, New South Wales; on E. incrassata, South 

 Australia, Tepper; on E. poli/anthema, C French, junior; on Eucahj plus, sp., 

 Western Australia, Fuller. 



Female galls varying froui dark red to almost blacky with the surface 

 corrugated and resembling a broad rounded she-oak {Casuarina) seed cone. 

 Spherical, rounded to the summit, which is flattened, with the small circular 

 apical orifice situated on a cone-shaped nipple in the centre. Often single 

 n])on the branchlets, but sometimes in clusters of half a dozen. Height, 

 ] inch; diameter, | inch. 



Male galls very numerous, often covering all the surface of the adjacent 

 foliage; very slender, cylindrical, slightly delated at the apex, reddish brown. 

 Length, to J inch. 



Adult female broadly turbinate, the thoracic and abdominal segments 

 fitting close to each other, terminating in an angular point. General colour 

 bright yellow, anal segments reddish brown, anal appendages reddish brown 



