. A descriptive catalogue of the scale insects ("Coccidae") of Australia. Insects -- Australia; Scale insects. SCALE INSECTS (" COCCIDiE") OF AUSTRALIA. 129 1897. A'piomorj>ha maliformis, Fuller (Fig. 85 . Journal West Australian Bureau oj Arjrkulture, vol. iv, p. 134(5. Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 446, p!. xv, fij^. 14. 1897. These galls, according to Fuller, are usually, though not always, found growing upon the flower-buds of Eucah/ptus patens, a common gum about Swan River, Western Australia. I have a fine series of specimens from Dr. Cleland from the same locality o
. A descriptive catalogue of the scale insects ("Coccidae") of Australia. Insects -- Australia; Scale insects. SCALE INSECTS (" COCCIDiE") OF AUSTRALIA. 129 1897. A'piomorj>ha maliformis, Fuller (Fig. 85 . Journal West Australian Bureau oj Arjrkulture, vol. iv, p. 134(5. Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 446, p!. xv, fij^. 14. 1897. These galls, according to Fuller, are usually, though not always, found growing upon the flower-buds of Eucah/ptus patens, a common gum about Swan River, Western Australia. I have a fine series of specimens from Dr. Cleland from the same locality on the same species of gum-tree, but most of them are on the Fig 85.—Api;inorpha maliformis, Fuller. Female. Adult female gall subspherical, variable in size and form, sessile, greyish brown, broadly rounded to the summit, where it is depressed, with the small circular anal orifice in the centre of the depression. Average height, 1 inch; diameter at summit, 1^ inches. Walls of gall thick, composed of fleshy tissue, with the elongate oval gall chamber in the centre enclosed in a hard shell. Adult female coccid pear-shaped, yellow, with the anal segment reddish brown and chitinous. Dorsal surface clothed with spiny hairs scattered on the abdominal and thoracic segments, longer and thicker on the abdominal; the first three abdominal segments with transverse bands of stout, reddish spines; the following four segments fringed along the hind margin with stouter spines. Anal appendages close at base, with distinct division to the tips, where they are deflected outward; short, broad at base, tapering and rugose to the tips, which are swollen with a stout tubidar spine near the extremity, clothed with fine hairs. Anal ring defined. Legs larsre, thickened, claws short. 132. Apiomorpha maliformis. Cat. Coccidoe, pi 42. + 98175—E. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appea
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