SCALE INSECTS (" COCCID^ ") OF AUSTRALIA. 143 



Fig. 93. 



-Apiomorph't thnhtmi, Froggatt. 

 (Male and Female.) 



Male galls brown to dull red, enclosed in a rugose irregular sheath, often 

 turned downwards, and attached to the upper side of the female gall, 

 usually with the two sides coming towards each other, enclosing large 

 numbers of male gall tubes. 



Adult female pale yellow, cylin- 

 drical, slightly turbinate, rounded 

 on the apex ; thoracic segments 

 much wrinkled; abdominal seg- 

 ments small, coming to a sharp tip. 

 Dorsal surface with a few scattered 

 hairs on the thoracic segments, 

 thicker on the abdominal; first 

 abdominal segment without spines, 

 .'iecond and third mth a fewscattered 

 .spines along the centre, fourth, fifth, 

 and sixth with a fringe of spines 

 along the hind margins, in the last longer and stouter. Anal appendages 

 long, slender, separated at the base, then closed together until near the tips, 

 where they are deflexed and truncate. Length, J inch. 



This is another species in which the cockscomb-shaped mass of male galls is 

 attached to the oval female galls, as in A.pharetraia and A.rosceformis. Fuller's 

 .species is identical with mine, both in gall, structure, and enclosed coccid. 



146. Ajnomorpha thorntoni. Cat, Coccidae, p. 4-5. 



Ajnoinorpha umbellata, Froggatt iFig 99 . 

 Brachyscelis umbellata, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., vol. viii, p. 33(j, p . xvi, figs. 1-2. 1893. 

 „ ,, Agric. Gazette N.S.W., vol. ix, p. 4:92. 1898. 



This unique gall was described from a cluster of female galls on an un- 

 determined species of eucalyptus from Cobar, New South Wales. They 



were so like the seed capsules of a 

 gum-tree that they were sent to the 

 Technological Museum under the 

 impression that they were the seeds 

 of a new species. 



Female galls green, slender, nar- 

 rowest at the base, cylindrical, 

 swelling out to the apex, which is 

 truncate but roughened and warty ; 

 the apical orifice surrounded with a 

 raised nipple. Length, 1 inch ; dia- 

 meter at base, i,and at apex, J inch. 

 Adult female bright yellow, 

 slender, rounded at apex, tapering 

 , ^ „ , ^ to tip of abdomen. Dorsal surface 



(Female.) depressed in the centre of cephalic 



Fig 99. 



