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area, with a ring of dark spots, the whole clothed with fine hairs ; those upon 

 the thoracic segments more springy, with long white hairs on the outer 

 margins ; first two abdominal segments with a few scattered short reddish 

 spines, the following segments thickly clothed with stouter spines. Anal 

 appendages reddish brown, long, slender, roughened in contact to near the 

 tips where they open out, covered with fine spines and long hairs. 



148. Apiomorpha umbellala. Cat. Coccidae, p. 45. 



Apiomorpha urnalis, Tepper (Fig. 100). 



Brachyscelis urnalis. Trans. Royal Soc. South Australia, vol. xvii, p. 274, 2)1. iv 

 fig. 2. 1893. 

 ,, ,, Froggatt, Proc. Zmn. ,Soc. iV.^'.ir., vol. xxiii, p. 371. 1898. 



Agric. GizetteN.S.W., vol. ix, p. 494, pi. fig, f. 1. 1898. 

 Schraderi, Fuller, Agric. G.izette N.S.W., vol. vi, p. 214, p!. i, fig. 1. 1896. 



This beautiful little gall has a wide range over New South Wales, and is 

 sometimes found massed together in bunches, when many are often aborted 

 and irregular in form; when scattered over the twigs they have the typical 



jug or urn shape. Found at Tamworth, Uralla, 

 Goulburn, Wellington, and Hay, New South 

 Wales ; in the last-named case upon the box tree 

 {Eucalyptus hicolor); in Victoria, at Werribee, 

 upon Eiwalyptiis leticoxylon and E. goniocalyx 

 by C. French, junior ; and in South Australia, 

 at Murray Biidge, on Eucalyptus gracilis and 

 E. uncinaia by Tepper. 



Female galls attached at the rounded base to 

 the twigs and branches, with the basal portion 

 rounded, oval, about two-thirds of the height, 

 then contracted into a narrow neck, but at the 

 apex swelling out into a flat disc, roughened 

 on the flattened summit with the apical orifice 

 surrounded by a small nipple. Height, 1 inch. 



Fig, too.— A piomorpfia urnalis, Tepper. 



Female coccid dull yellow, slender. Dorsal surface rather convex, clothed 

 with scattered spiny hairs, the first four abdominal segments of uniform 

 length; the apical ones fringed with stout spines. Anal appendages black., 

 slender, in contact at the base, opening out at the tips, and with the anal 

 segments fringed with fine hairs. Under- surface much wTinkled on the 

 cephalic and thoracic segments, the latter bisected with an impressed line. 

 Legs ferruginous, thickened, with large claws. 



119. Apiomorpha urnalis. Cat. Coccidse, p. 4.5. 



