SCALE INSECTS (" COCCID^ ") OF AUSTRALIA. 



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cylindrical, tapering to the blunt rounded tip; first and second segments 

 slightly rugose, with fine parallel striations. Length up to one inch. The 

 males develop in the female gall. This is one of the most remarkable 

 gall insects in the world in the final stage of the adult female, having no 

 apparent mouth, antennae, legs, or anal appendages, while she is fixed on 



Fig. 109. — Cystocoecus pomiformis, Froggatt. 



the centre of the large chamber standing on her head. These galls arc known 

 as " bloodwood apples " in North Queensland, and in Central Australia the 

 natives collect them and eat the enclosed coccid. 



The type specimen came from North Queensland, and was described on 

 the gall and the remains of a female coccid as a Brachyscelis ; though the 

 gall is very like that of a Brachyscelid, the ad\ilt female is quite distinct from 

 any of that genus. 



164. Ascelis echiniformis. Cat. Coccidaj, p, 48. 



