. A descriptive catalogue of the scale insects ("Coccidae") of Australia. Insects -- Australia; Scale insects. SCIENCE BULLETIN, No. 19. Sphaerococcus cantentulatus, (Fig. 3). These coccids attack the youug brauchlets of the weeping myall {Acacia pendula), growing in the Condobolin district, New South Wales, causing them to swell out into gouty excrescences, irregularly rounded, up to an inch in length and one-eighth of an inch in diameter. These thickened twigs are hollow, containing a row of gall chambers, each separated from. Fig. 3.— ^phaerocnrcux canteiittilaius, the
. A descriptive catalogue of the scale insects ("Coccidae") of Australia. Insects -- Australia; Scale insects. SCIENCE BULLETIN, No. 19. Sphaerococcus cantentulatus, (Fig. 3). These coccids attack the youug brauchlets of the weeping myall {Acacia pendula), growing in the Condobolin district, New South Wales, causing them to swell out into gouty excrescences, irregularly rounded, up to an inch in length and one-eighth of an inch in diameter. These thickened twigs are hollow, containing a row of gall chambers, each separated from. Fig. 3.— ^phaerocnrcux canteiittilaius, the other. The adult female rests in the centre, upon an oval depression or scar, through which there is sometimes an aperture ; the outer surface of the gall mass marked with tubercles corresponding with the depressions inside the gall chambers. Adult female reddish brown, semi globular, wrinkled, with the abdominal segments reduced to a point at the apex; legs and antennae aborted. Sphaerococcus casnarinae, Maskell. Trans. N. Zealand ImtiliUe, vol. xxiv, p. 39, pi. viii, f. 8-20, 1891. The type specimens were described from Victoria, where they were found upon the basal portion of the galls of Cylindrococcus casuarinae, formed upon the branchlets of Casuarinae quadrivulvis. I have found them in the same situation on casuarinas growing on the cliffs at Newport, New South 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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