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I have also seen it on the following species : 
E. acmenioides , Comboyne Mountain (Dr. J. B. Cleland). E. piperita, Concord, 
Sydney (Miss A. F. Walker). E. resinifera, Gosford (W. A. W. de Beuzeville). E. 
rdbusta at Port Macquarie (Forester G. R.. Brown). E. Sieberiana. Cordeaux Dam 
(W. W. Froggatt). E. umbra, Hawkesbury River, N.S.W. (near railway gates), (W. F. 
Blakely). E. virgata, Hornsby, near Sydney (W. F. Blakely). 
2. Mr. W. W. Froggatt contributed a paper " Notes on the Family Brachyscelidse, 
with some account of their parasites and descriptions of new species," Proc. Linn. Soc. 
N.S.W., xvii, 353, 1892 (1893). 
The author states that at one time he was under the impression " that each 
species of Coccid had a partiality for a particular species of Eucalyptus, but observations 
extending over several years have proved that, though some of the rarer species may 
keep to one tree, most of them thrive on various Eucalypts." 
He then described the life history of these gall-making insects. He points out 
that if the Eucalypts do not actually die from their attacks, the insects injure the trees, 
and therefore become of economic importance. I regret that Entomologists do not 
more frequently follow up the host plant and obtain its species-name. This is difficult 
in some cases, but in many cases not insuperable. There ought to be closer relations 
between the entomologist and the botanist. . I do not like to see the references, " Found 
on Eucalyptus sp." or " found on a Eucalypt." Indeed, these statements are unnecessary 
as Brachyscelids are not found on any other trees. 
Mr. Froggatt gives notes on Schrader's species, and describes the following new 
ones : 
B. baeuerlenii (p. 369, with Plate VII. fig. 4). Found on an undetermined species 
at Ballina, N.S.W. 
B. cornea (p. 365, with Plate VI, fig. 3). B. regularis Tepper, B. subconica Tepper 
and B. (Apiomarpha) similis Rubs.). Found at Yass, Goulburn, and Cooma, N.S.W., on 
E. viminalis, and in Gippsland, Victoria, on an undetermined species. " This gall is 
very plentiful in the Goulburn and Yass districts, growing upon several of the White 
Boxes." The synonymy is as given by Froggatt in Agric. Gaz. N.S.W., ix, 493, where 
it is stated " Common in Victoria and New South Wales." If the synonymy is correct, 
then South Australia must be added, as Tepper' s specimens come from thence. It 
occurs on E. vimindis, Bellerive to Rokeby, Tasmania (J.H.M.). It has been found 
on E. tereticornis , on a spontaneous tree in the Botanic Gardens, Sydney, by the late 
Mr. E. Betche and myself. It has been found on E. deosa on Line 7200, Griffith, 
N.S.W., also at Yenda, near Griffith (W. D. Campbell). Found on E. dumosa, Wyalong 
(J. L. Boorman). 
B. minor, p. 363, with Plate VI, fig. 1). Found on E. Iwemastoma at Botany and 
Berowra (both near Sydney), and also at Wollongong (on the hillside opposite the 
railway station) on an unknown species. " This is a rather small gall that might be 
taken for a small variety of B, ovicola." It has since been found on E. eugenioides at 
Homsby (W. F. Blakely). 
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