. A descriptive catalogue of the scale insects ("Coccidae") of Australia. Insects -- Australia; Scale insects. SCALE INSECTS (* COCCIDiE") OF AUSTRALIA. 135 Apiomorpha pedunculata, Fuller (Fig. 91). Brachyscelis pedunculata, Agrk. Gazette ., vo'. vii, p. 212, pi. i, figs, 1-5. 189(». BrachysceJis pedunculata, Froggatt, Auric. Gazette A'.*'. IF., vol. iii, p. 494. 1892. Brachyscelis pedunculata, Fn ggalt, Natural Science, vol. v, p. 111. 1894. This handsome, stalked gall is found singly or in groups of three or four upon the branchlets of Eucalyptus viminalis in the coa
. A descriptive catalogue of the scale insects ("Coccidae") of Australia. Insects -- Australia; Scale insects. SCALE INSECTS (* COCCIDiE") OF AUSTRALIA. 135 Apiomorpha pedunculata, Fuller (Fig. 91). Brachyscelis pedunculata, Agrk. Gazette ., vo'. vii, p. 212, pi. i, figs, 1-5. 189(». BrachysceJis pedunculata, Froggatt, Auric. Gazette A'.*'. IF., vol. iii, p. 494. 1892. Brachyscelis pedunculata, Fn ggalt, Natural Science, vol. v, p. 111. 1894. This handsome, stalked gall is found singly or in groups of three or four upon the branchlets of Eucalyptus viminalis in the coastal districts near Sydney, New South Wales, and on an undetermined species of eucal}qjtus near Melbourne', Victoria (C. French, junior).. Fig. â Apiomorph Fuller, (a) Female, (b) Male. Female galls, with the basal portion consisting of a slender, cylindrical stalk, often longer than the elongate oval apical gall containing the coccid; the oval gall truncate at the tip, with the apical orifice in the centre. Length of gall up to 3 inches, the stalk being about the same length as the apical portion. Diameter, i inch in the centre. Male galls of the typical tubular form, very slender, with the apex very much dilated, springing from the leaf or the surface of the twigs beside the female galls. Length, \ inch. Adult female dull yellow, apical segments dark brown ; general form elongate, oval; cephalic and thoracic segments rounded; the last thoracic and abdominal segments long and tapering. Dorsal surface clothed with scattered spiny hairs, with a broad dorsal stripe from the base to the apex formed of fine reddish, thorn-like spines, spreading out into a transverse band on the third and fourth abdominal segments, with a fringe of longer spines on the following segments. Anal appendages cylindrical, tapering, and separated at the extremities; clothed with long hairs. Ventral surface much corrugated, legs and antennae well defined; the hind pair of legs large,
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