. A descriptive catalogue of the scale insects ("Coccidae") of Australia. Insects -- Australia; Scale insects. SCALE ( • COCCID^ " OF AUSTRALIA. 23 turn outward, forming a regular star when viewed from beneath : in many others the basal row of bracts turn upward and form a regular calyx round the base of the next ring of seven or eight spined bracts; above this is a second row of similar bracts, above which, tapering to the apex, are the elongated tips of all the internal slender tubular sections of the gall, in the. Fig. 15.—CjiUmlfococcus itpuiifeni-s. centre of which
. A descriptive catalogue of the scale insects ("Coccidae") of Australia. Insects -- Australia; Scale insects. SCALE ( • COCCID^ " OF AUSTRALIA. 23 turn outward, forming a regular star when viewed from beneath : in many others the basal row of bracts turn upward and form a regular calyx round the base of the next ring of seven or eight spined bracts; above this is a second row of similar bracts, above which, tapering to the apex, are the elongated tips of all the internal slender tubular sections of the gall, in the. Fig. 15.—CjiUmlfococcus itpuiifeni-s. centre of which is the cylindrical tube containing the female coccid. All these bracts can be removed one by one, until the central tubular one is reached containing the female coccid. Adult female so similar in general form and structure to that of C. amplior that Maskell states that it wovdd be difficult to separate them on the female coccid. In one of the plates of Scott's " Australian Lipidoptera and their Transformations," the artist has depicted a spray of Casuarina bearing these galls, evidently under the imjiression they were the true seed ca])sules of the sheoak. 360. Cylindrococcus spiniferus. Cat. Coccida?, p. 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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