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Mr. Froggatt, Agric. Gaz. N.S.W., ix, 494, says this species is identical with 
B. schraderi Olliff, but see Fuller, op. cit., p. 212 (unalis in error). Urinalis in error in 
Froggatt, Agric. Gaz. N.S.W., ix, 493. Olliff had it from Sydney, while Mr. Froggatt 
had some beautiful masses, containing hundreds of galls, from Uralla, N.S.W. I have 
received it on E. calycogona, which goes locally under the name " Gooseberry Mallee," 
because of the shape of the galls, from Parilla Forest .reserve, South Australia (Walter 
Gill). On E. hemipMoia var. microcarpa, East Mirrool, N.S.W. (W. D. Campbell). 
On E. mettiodoro, Goulbirn (Froggatt, op. cit., p. 371). On E. Moorei, Wentworth 
Falls (D. W. C. Shiress). On E. pdyanthemos , Uralla (W. W. Froggatt, op. cit, p. 371). 
E. Sieberiana, Middle Harbour, Port Jackson (Dr. J. B. Cleland). E. spathulata, 
Cunderdin, W.A. See bottom of p. 124, Part XXXV, Grit. Rev. (W. V. Fitzgerald). 
5. " Notes on the sub-family Brachyscelinse with descriptions .of new species," 
Part IV, by W. W. Froggatt (Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xx, 20L 1895). 
Following are the new species : 
B. dipsaciformis (p. 202, with Plate XIX, fig. 1). " This name was given to a 
small, regular, oval gall, covered with little tufted bracts, or curved spines, that gave 
them a striking resemblance to a teazle. North Queensland exact locality unknown." 
Froggatt, in Agric. Gaz. N.S.W., ix, 493. On E. paniculata, Ourimbah State? Forest, 
N.S.W. (W. E. A. McPherson). 
B. sessilis (p. 203, with Plate XIX, fig. 2). Found on the branchlets of an 
undetermined rough-barked species at Wallsend, near Newcastle. The female gall is 
described as turret-shaped (Froggatt in Agric. Gaz. N.S.W. , ix, 493). 
B. roscrforma (p. 205, with Plate XIX, fig. 3). " In this Cockscomb gall the 
female ones are long and slender, attenuated at the base, and truncated at the tip, 9 
lines in length, and not more than l lines in diameter. The male galls forming an 
irregular mushroom-like mass containing up to 1,000 pale pink tubes, and sometimes 
the whole mass pale red." (Froggatt in Agric. Gaz. N.S.W., ix, 495). 
6. There is an interesting illustrated article by Claude Fuller, entitled " Forest 
Insects; some Gall-making Coccids," in the Agric. Gaz. N.S.W., vii, 209 (1896) 
four plates. After speaking of the family Coccidida) as an anomalous group, he go:s 
on to say, " It is not, therefore, surprising that in such a land of anomalies as Australia 
the greatest anomalies are found to exist. Such an irregularity is the genus Brachyscdis, 
the members of which live exclusively upon trees and shrubs of the genus Eucalyptus. 
These insects cause woody galls of many interesting shapes to grow upon the tree, in 
the heart of which they live; in the case of females till death, and of the males until the 
adult stage is reached." Then follow detailed accounts of the male insect, female 
insect, and larva). 
He then gives an account of the male and female galls the external evidences 
of the attacks of the insects on the Eucalypts and these will be of most interest to 
the botanist. 
