SCALE INSECTS (" COCCIDiE ") OF AUSTRALIA. 145 



Apiomorpha variabilis, Froggatt (Fig. lOV- 



Brachyscflis variabilis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., p. 304, p'. vii, fig. 2. 1892. 

 ,, .. Natural Science, vol. V, ji. 12. 1894. 



,, ,, Proc. Li/m. <Soc. iY.-S.U'., vol. xxiii, p. 374 ( aiva). 18!>S 



Agric. Gazette N.S.W.,vo\.ix,Tp. 4m. 1898. 



This large solid green gall is found singly, growing directly from the side 

 of a stout branch or small twig upon Enralyptns piimita in the vicinity of 

 Sydney, but it ranges all over the coastal districts of New South Wales. 



Female gall, consisting of a large oval, solid, woolly mass surmounted on 

 the summit with a contracted softer mass of tissue, forming a dome over tlie 

 gall proper. The apical orifice is in the summit of the hard woody gall, 



Fig. 101. — Apwmoryha varialnlis, Frog£;att. 

 (Fomale.) 



but there is a rugged opening at the apex of the dome between which and 

 the apical orifice there is an irregular cavity. The gall often turns down- 

 ward on the stem from which it is produced. Height, 2| inches ; diameter, 

 1| inches. No male galls have ever been noticed. 



Female coccid yellow, broadly turbinate. Dorsal surface of the cephalic 

 region lightly clothed with fine hairs; the thoracic segments covered with 

 long spiny hairs; the first abdominal segments thickly clothed with long 

 spiny hairs interspersed with short scattered spines; the last five abdominal 

 segments chitinous, with central bands of stout reddish spines, many circular 

 orifices, and long spiny hairs. Anal appendages short, closed at base, tapering 

 to a blunt tip, rugose, and covered with stout spiny hairs. Under-surface 

 clothed with fine white hairs. Length, § inch. 



