. A descriptive catalogue of the scale insects ("Coccidae") of Australia. Insects -- Australia; Scale insects. 126 SCIENCE BULLETIN, No. 18. Adult female coccid orange yellow; anal segments reddish brown; tur- binate, with the abdominal segments tapering to the extremity. Dorsal surface with the whole of the epidermis covered with short reddish thorn-shaped spines, thickest in the centre, producing a dorsal stripe, forming apical fringes of longer spines on the abdominal segments. Fuller says, "Epidermis with many small multiocular pores, and clothed with numerous short
. A descriptive catalogue of the scale insects ("Coccidae") of Australia. Insects -- Australia; Scale insects. 126 SCIENCE BULLETIN, No. 18. Adult female coccid orange yellow; anal segments reddish brown; tur- binate, with the abdominal segments tapering to the extremity. Dorsal surface with the whole of the epidermis covered with short reddish thorn-shaped spines, thickest in the centre, producing a dorsal stripe, forming apical fringes of longer spines on the abdominal segments. Fuller says, "Epidermis with many small multiocular pores, and clothed with numerous short ; Anal appendages slender, rugose, taper- ing, opening out at the apex, with a short blunt spine on the outer margin near the tip. Antennae and legs aborted. Male galls tinted with yellow, produced upon the leaves, short cylindrical tubes; ribbed on the sides, dilated at the apex. Height,. Fig. S2.—Apiotncrpha hehnsii, Fuller. ^ inch. Fuller does not give any measurements of the adult female. 130. Apiomorpka helmsii. Cat. Coccidse, p. 42. Apiomorpka hiUi, (Figs. 83 and 84). This remarkable species is found in the neighbourhood of Darwin, North Australia, in all stages of growth in July, upon the branchlets of the " woolly-butt " {Eucah/plus miniala). Female galls broad- ly ova), the apex truncate, with the outer margin forming a rampart round a circular pit, \ inch in depth, where there is a flattened reddish floor, in the centre of which is the small circular apical ori- fice. In the earlier stages of the gall's growth the apex of the gall runs up into Fig. ^z.^Apiomonha hm. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Froggatt, Walter Wilson, 1858-. Sydney : W. A. Gullick, government printer
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