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Color brown to brownish yellow with heavy red pigmentation on 

 thorax and abdomen. 



Head rather large ; cheeks somewhat convex and slightly converging 

 posteriorly, covered with numerous minute serrations, each of which 

 carries a small hair : vertex with strong cross-striations ; postocular 

 spines prominent, about as long as the eye, with sharp-pointed tips. 

 Eyes bright orange color by reflected light, facets rather small and 

 numerous, not pilose. Ocelli rather prominent, orange yellow; pos- 

 terior pair situated well forward, anterior to the middle of the eyes, 

 the margins of which they approximate but do not touch; anterior 

 ocellus directed forward. 



Mmi tli cone rather long but rounded at the tip, reaching seven-tenths 

 of the distance across the prothorax. 



Ant*'in<ac somewhat less than twice as long as the head; segments 

 i and 2 light grayish brown, 3 yellow, 4 to 8 yellowish brown, becoming 

 darker toward the tip, 4 frequently brown only at the base, and the 

 base of 5 often yellow. Spines and sense cones light-colored and in- 

 conspicuous. 



Prothorax triangular in outline; nearly as long as the head but con- 

 siderably narrower than the mesothorax. One strong spine on the 

 dorsal part of each lateral margin projects backward, and a smaller 

 one on the ventral part projects forward. There is a short spine near 

 the anterior angle. Pterothorax without prominent spines. Legs 

 rather long, concolorous with the body; fore tibiae somewhat enlarged. 



Wings scarcely reaching .75 the length of the abdomen : membrane 

 clear, bordered with long hairs, 17 to 22 hairs of a double line inter- 

 located on the posterior border of the fore pair. 



Abdomen long, widest at the base, whence it tapers gradually to 

 the sixth segment and then more abruptly to the tube; hairs short, 

 pale and inconspicuous, especially on segments i to 4. Tube long and 

 narrow. 



$ . Very similar but usually smaller, averaging less than 2 mm. in 

 length. 



Larva. Ground color pale yellow. This extends over all parts of 

 the legs and antennae. The thorax and abdomen are so liberally pro- 

 vided with a blood red pigment as to cause the insect to appear deep 

 red to the unaided eye. There are no white or black bands on the 

 thorax as described for L. caryac by Fitch. 



Described from numerous individuals taken from deserted 

 galls of Phylloxera on hickory leaves, Gainesville, Florida. 

 Both young and adults feed on the succulent walls of the galls 

 which ultimately become hard and black. The larvae are very 

 common in these galls from late April to June, but the adults 

 are more difficult to find and have not been collected before 



