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to black. Dorsal surface clothed with fine spines and hairs, very few upon 

 the cephalic portion, more numerous and longer on the thorax, and upon 

 the abdominal segments forming transverse bands of stouter spines, with 

 clear pores on the chitinous lower margins. Anal appendages very rugose, 

 rounded at the base, with a distinct median opening between them, the 



Fig. 97. — ApioMjrpha strcmbylcsa, Tepper, 



blunt tips opening out, clothed with spiny hairs. Ventral surface wrinkled, 

 with the antennae and legs well developed; hind legs very broad at the base. 

 Length, about | inch. 



Tepper only described the female gall of this species, but it was prior to 

 Fuller's detailed life history of this fine coccid, so that Tepper's name stands. 



1 45. Apiomorpha stromhylosa. Cat. Coccidae, p. 45. 



Apiomorpka thorntoni, Froggatt (Fig. 98). 



Brachyscelis thorntoni, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., p. 371, vol. vii, pK vi, fig. 6. 1892. 



„ nux, Fuller, Agric. Gazette N.S.W., vol. vii, p. 214, pi. iii, figs. 1-3. 



1896. 

 ,, thorntoni, Froggatt, Agric. Gazette N.S.W., vol. ix, p. 495. 1898. 



This species is found upon the foliage of Eucalyptus piperita, Newcastle, 

 Nnw South Wales, and has a wide range along the coast. Fuller's specimens 

 came from Bungendore, New South Wales ; also found on E. amygdalina, 

 Dandenong, Victoria, by C. French, junior. 



Adult female galls springing out from the midrib of the leaves, oval, 

 coming to a slightly truncate apex; the outer surface of the gall ribbed, 

 anal aperture small, circular. Height, f inch. 



