. A descriptive catalogue of the scale insects ("Coccidae") of Australia. Insects -- Australia; Scale insects. SCALE INSECTS (" COCCID^E ") OF AUSTRALIA. 121 Male galls short, four-sided, opening out at the tips, springing from the leaves or on the horns of the female gall. Length, J inch. 126. Apiomorpha duplex. Cat. Coccidae, p. 41. Apiomorpha excupida, Fuller (Fig. 78). Brachyscelis excupula, Agric. Gazette W., vol. vii, p. 217, pi. iii, figs. 4-7. 1896. This species was first recorded from Port Stephens, New South Wales, on an undetermined species of eucalypt. I ha
. A descriptive catalogue of the scale insects ("Coccidae") of Australia. Insects -- Australia; Scale insects. SCALE INSECTS (" COCCID^E ") OF AUSTRALIA. 121 Male galls short, four-sided, opening out at the tips, springing from the leaves or on the horns of the female gall. Length, J inch. 126. Apiomorpha duplex. Cat. Coccidae, p. 41. Apiomorpha excupida, Fuller (Fig. 78). Brachyscelis excupula, Agric. Gazette W., vol. vii, p. 217, pi. iii, figs. 4-7. 1896. This species was first recorded from Port Stephens, New South Wales, on an undetermined species of eucalypt. I have had several fine series from the Tweed River, New South Wales. This species was described and figured from the galls alone. Fuller gave no description of the coccid. I have retained his suggested name. Female galls often in masses on the branchlets of the gum-tree, the basal portion not unlike the cup of an acorn, from which springs out the egg-shaped gall, the whole surface of which is covered with flattened slender tapering bracts forming a regular ring round the apical orifice, which is small and circular. } eight of gall, about 1 inch; width about i inc' Fig. 19.—Apiomorpha excupula, FilHor. Adult female yellow, very broadly turbinate, with the tip of the abdomen coming to a fine point; thickly clothed with fine long yellow hairs on the sides of the lower abdominal segments, and forming a brush extending beyond the anal appendages. Antennse very well defined, four-jointed; legs short and stout; the last thoracic and the first three abdominal segments with a few scattered reddish spines; fourth and fifth with longer scattered spines forming tufts on the outer margins; sixth small, with a large bunch of long spines and hairs on either side. Anal appendages bright reddish-brown, finely rugose, broad at the base, fitting into the centre of the last abdominal segment, with a central depressed line at the base, above which is a central saddle-shaped plate, then a narrow s
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