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are covered with bark like the rest of the limb. Large galls sel- 

 dom exceed two -thirds of an inch in diameter by two inches in 

 length. All polythalamous; they are exceedingly abundant at 

 Manitou, Col. Galls taken May 8th of this year began giving 

 flies two days later. 



Gall-fly 9- Black, with head, feet, portions of thorax, and basal por- 

 tions of antennae rufous. Length 1.75 2.5 mm. Head varying in color 

 from a good cinnamon-brown to almost black, but with no black markings 

 except the tips of the mandibles, the borders of the mouth and the com-, 

 pound eyes. Face coarsely punctured and with striae radiating from the 

 mouth. Antennae i5-jointed, rufous at base, last six or seven joints black. 

 Thorax somewhat darker than the head, varying from cinnamon-brown 

 to almost jet-black. The surface is finely and densely wrinkled, the 

 wrinkles running in a transverse direction; parapsides narrow, but dis- 

 tinct; the two parallel lines extending back from the prothorax not very 

 distinct; scutellum bi-foveate. the foveae rather small and very black, sur- 

 face of scutellum wrinkled like the thorax; thorax and abdomen rather 

 sparsely set with gray hairs, humeri wrinkled like the mesothorax, pleurae 

 very finely scratched ; abdomen black, polished, somewhat rufous in ru- 

 fous specimens. Feet, including coxae, with the exception of the poste- 

 rior tibiae, rufous; the posterior tibiae infuscate. In dark specimens the 

 posterior femora and the middle tibiae are somewhat infuscate. In the 

 darkest specimens all of the feet are somewhat blackish. Wings, length 

 in large specimens 3 mm., areolet medium in size, but faint on account 

 of the very slight cubital nervure, radial area long and narrow, radial 

 nerve not attaining the costa, the two transverse nervures quite heavy. 



Described from thirty-one reared specimens, all females. 



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NEW SPECIES OF NEPTIS FROM AFRICA. 



(Plate IX.) 



By W. J. HOLLAND, Ph.D., Pittsburg, Pa. 



I have recently been going over the collections of African Le- 

 pidoptera in my possession with a view to the preparation of a 

 synonymic catalogue of those of the tropical West Coast. I 

 have completed the revision of the species of Neptis found in the 

 Ogove Valley, and make out no less than ten good species and 

 one variety, which some authors would possibly reckon as a spe- 

 cies. The species are the following: ncbrodes Hew., Biafra Ward, 

 nemetcs Hew., nicoteles Hew., nicobule sp. nov, , metanira sp. 

 nov., mixophyes sp. nov., metella Do ubl.- Hew., Agatha Cram., 

 mcliccrta Dru. To these add N. Biafra var. coniinuata var. nov. 

 I herewith give descriptions of new forms, and the accompanying 



