Archive image from page 148 of A descriptive catalogue of the. A descriptive catalogue of the scale insects ('Coccidae') of Australia descriptivecatal02frog Year: 1915 SCALE INSECTS (' COCCID ') OF AUSTRALIA. 143 Fig. 93. -Apiomorph't thnhtmi, Froggatt. (Male and Female.) Male galls brown to dull red, enclosed in a rugose irregular sheath, often turned downwards, and attached to the upper side of the female gall, usually with the two sides coming towards each other, enclosing large numbers of male gall tubes. Adult female pale yellow, cylin- drical, slightly turbinate, rounded on the apex;
Archive image from page 148 of A descriptive catalogue of the. A descriptive catalogue of the scale insects ('Coccidae') of Australia descriptivecatal02frog Year: 1915 SCALE INSECTS (' COCCID ') OF AUSTRALIA. 143 Fig. 93. -Apiomorph't thnhtmi, Froggatt. (Male and Female.) Male galls brown to dull red, enclosed in a rugose irregular sheath, often turned downwards, and attached to the upper side of the female gall, usually with the two sides coming towards each other, enclosing large numbers of male gall tubes. Adult female pale yellow, cylin- drical, slightly turbinate, rounded on the apex; thoracic segments much wrinkled; abdominal seg- ments small, coming to a sharp tip. Dorsal surface with a few scattered hairs on the thoracic segments, thicker on the abdominal; first abdominal segment without spines, .'iecond and third mth a fewscattered .spines along the centre, fourth, fifth, and sixth with a fringe of spines along the hind margins, in the last longer and stouter. Anal appendages long, slender, separated at the base, then closed together until near the tips, where they are deflexed and truncate. Length, J inch. This is another species in which the cockscomb-shaped mass of male galls is attached to the oval female galls, as in and Fuller's .species is identical with mine, both in gall, structure, and enclosed coccid. 146. Ajnomorpha thorntoni. Cat, Coccidae, p. 4-5. Ajnoinorpha umbellata, Froggatt iFig 99 . Brachyscelis umbellata, Proc. Linn. Soc. , vol. viii, p. 33(j, p . xvi, figs. 1-2. 1893. „ ,, Agric. Gazette , vol. ix, p. 4:92. 1898. This unique gall was described from a cluster of female galls on an un- determined species of eucalyptus from Cobar, New South Wales. They were so like the seed capsules of a gum-tree that they were sent to the Technological Museum under the impression that they were the seeds of a new species. Female galls green, slender, nar- rowest at the base, cylindrical, swelling out to the a
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