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certain Gall-making Coccidce of Australia." The paper ia illustrated 

 by three plates, and, to my surprise, on one of them I found a figure 

 of our particular gall, with the name " JBracht/scelis munita,^^ Sch., 

 attached. 



" And now for private observations. Few observers seem to have 

 seen the male Coccid ; but, as far as I can gather, it is of the normal 

 size and winged, and would appear to be bred from the small galls 

 that are almost always found in company with the large ones. As the 

 helpless female never leaves the gall, pairing must take place through 

 the small orifice in the gall between the horns. Whether the eggs 



are expelled from the body 

 of the female, or whether 

 her dead skin (she is sim- 

 ply an egg-sac) still en- 

 closes them as a means of 

 protection, does not seem 

 clearly determined, but it 

 is said the newly-hatched 

 young emerge from the 

 orifice and scatter in search 

 of food. I have met with 

 no one who has observed 

 the galls at an early stage. 

 I see I have omitted to say 

 above that the female is 

 from half to three-quarters 

 of an inch in length, and 

 is incapable of any move- 

 ment but that of a wriggle 

 of the tail after the manner 

 of a chrysalid. 



" As to the galls them- 

 selves, the season has about 



arrived for obtaining them, and as I cannot get about in search of 

 them, I have enlisted the services of my friend, Mr. E. H. Pulleine, 

 and his brothers, who have undertaken to get me some specimens, but 

 I have just received a note from the former saying that up to the 

 present they had been unable to meet with it. Like some of the galls 

 at home it seems to be abundant in some years and scarce in others, 

 but I hope we shall be able to meet with it. 



