. A descriptive catalogue of the scale insects ("Coccidae") of Australia. Insects -- Australia; Scale insects. 122 SCIENCE BULLETIN, No. 18. Apio)norpha fletcheri, Fuller (Figs. 79 and 80). Brachyscelis fletcheri, Agric. Gazette , p. 215, pi. iv. 1896. Fvogg&tt, Agric. Gazette , vol. ix,Tp.'i9i. 1898. This species has a wide range. The types were collected in an undeter- mined eucalypt near Richmond, New South Wales. I have found it at Wagga and at other localities on the red-gum {Eucalyptus rostrata), and at Hay, New South Wales, upon a box-gum {E. hicohr). Fuller re
. A descriptive catalogue of the scale insects ("Coccidae") of Australia. Insects -- Australia; Scale insects. 122 SCIENCE BULLETIN, No. 18. Apio)norpha fletcheri, Fuller (Figs. 79 and 80). Brachyscelis fletcheri, Agric. Gazette , p. 215, pi. iv. 1896. Fvogg&tt, Agric. Gazette , vol. ix,Tp.'i9i. 1898. This species has a wide range. The types were collected in an undeter- mined eucalypt near Richmond, New South Wales. I have found it at Wagga and at other localities on the red-gum {Eucalyptus rostrata), and at Hay, New South Wales, upon a box-gum {E. hicohr). Fuller records it from Swan River, Western Australia, on another gum-tree, and French from Dandenong Range, Victoria, on E. regnans. The females infest the branches, which swell out into aborted masses of tissue forming galls of all shapes and sizes, several inches in length, and broad in proportion. In these irregular woody masses the true coccid galls are embedded, usually hidden under the surface of the bark, but when the rough, dead, surface bark is pulled off, the apical tip of the upper half of the. Fig. 79.—Apioworpha fletcheri, fuller. (Female.) gall may be seen level with the surface or slightly projecting. The apical half of the gall, though it appears to be first formed of the bark, as the galls mature becomes a distinct funnel-shaped or conical cap, hard and solid with a very small circular opening fitting close against the upper rim of the lower half of the gall, which is a smooth white circular convex pit in the solid wood, in which the coccid rests, the tails reaching into the cap. Diameter of pit above, | inch; depth of pit, \ inch; the cap portion of gall, \ inch. There are often three or four of the coccid gall pits in each woody mass, and the trees are often covered all over the branches with these woody excrescences. Adult female coccid diill yellow, with the apical abdominal segments and legs reddish-brown; the anal appendages black. Length, ^ inch. General form e
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