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infesting young, vigorous saplings, grows with wonderful rapidity ; 
the younger and more sturdy the tree, the quicker it grows. 
Having dealt with Mr. Tepper’s classification, I should like to 
make a few remarks upon his so-called new species, most of which 
are described from aborted or abnormal forms of very common 
species already described. If a classification of the galls were 
admissable, there would be no end to new species, as many as a 
dozen varieties of many of the galls being obtainable from 
several species, all of which could be easily placed if the full- 
grown female were examined. 
Not content with dealing with the Brachyscelid proper, Mr. 
Tepper figures and describes a gall on Beyeria opaca as a new 
Brachyscelis, without the least idea of what insect formed it. 
The figures show a very variable gall, which might be formed by 
anything. The genus Brachyscelis only form galls on species of 
Eucalyptus. 
Ascelis multitudinea, Tepper, is treated in the same manner. 
The galls figured are not like any Ascelis known to me, but very 
much like the galls of a Psylla, while the insect figured as the 
gall-maker, evidently an inquline, is not a female coccid of this 
group. 
The following “‘new species,” according to Mr. Tepper’s 
descriptions and drawings, are synonymes of other species :— 
(2) Brachyscelis ovicoloides, Tepper, is the curved form of 
B. pileata, Schrader, if the section was taken as typical ; if the 
gall, it is an aborted B. ovicola, Schrader. 
(3) B. regularis, Tepper, is the broad, short-stemmed form of 
B. pedunculata, Oliiff. 
(4) B. glabra, Tepper, is an abnormal form of B. ovicola. 
(5) B. subconica, Tepper, is one of the very common forms of 
B. conica, Froggatt. 
(6) B. urnalis, Tepper, is B. Schraderi, Olliff, found in the 
western parts of N.S. Wales. 
(7) B. strombylosa, Tepper, is B. erispa, Olliff, a very common 
gall about Sydney. 
The last two, called B. calycina and B. Neumann, are new ; 
but as they both come from the same locality, and allied, if not 
the same species of Eucalyptus, it is most likely that they are 
only varieties of one species ; but this can only be settled by 
examining females from each species. 
I think I have proved that Mr. Tepper has, by the recent con- 
tribution to our knowledge of the gall-making coccids, in his 
haste to make new species, without a sufficient grasp of the 
subject, added little new, and heaped up synonyms that will 
bother all future students. 
