ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Nov., 'l6 



tightly packed in Cypress cones. These galls are evidently modified 

 seeds and the shape is determined to a great extent by the growth of 

 those adjacent. 



Larva. Length, 3 mm., moderately stout, yellowish white or yellow- 

 ish orange. Head short, broad, the antennae short, tapering, appar- 

 ently uniarticulate ; breastbone distinct, brown, with anterior and pos- 

 terior, somewhat crescentic prolongations, the former bidentate, the 

 teeth being widely separated and sublateral ; skin coarsely shagreened, 

 posterior extremity broadly rounded. 



Pupa. Length, 4 mm., stout, mostly reddish orange, the thoracic 

 horns slender, tapering, light brown, with variable fuscous markings, 

 the antennal horns short, stout, obtuse, the antennae hardly extending 

 to the base of the abdomen, the wings to the third abdominal segment, 

 and the leg to the fourth abdominal segment, the last three in nearly 

 mature pupae, black ; posterior extremity obscurely lobed, rounded. 



Length 2 mm. Antennae a little longer than the body, rather 

 thickly haired, fuscous yellowish : 14 segments, the fifth having the 

 stems with a length one and one-half and two and one-half times their 

 diameters, respectively; the distal enlargement with a length one-half 

 greater than its diameter and a distinct constriction near the basal 

 third ; circumfili moderately stout, the loops numerous, the distal filum 

 having 16 to 20. Palpi: first segment subquadrate, the second one-half 

 longer, more slender, the third as long as the second, more slender, the 

 fourth one-half longer than the third, somewhat dilated. 



Mesonotum fuscous yellowish, the submedian lines j'ellowish. Scu- 

 tellum and postscutellum reddish orange. Halteres whitish transpar- 

 ent, yellowish apically. Coxae, femora and tibiae mostly pale yellowish, 

 the tarsi with the most of the second segment, the third and fourth 

 pinkish, the remainder fuscous yellowish ; claws moderately slender, 

 somewhat curved, the pulvilli about half the length of the claws. 



Abdomen with deeper red, the lateral margins rather thickly clothed 

 with short, fuscous hairs. Genitalia fuscous ; basal clasp segment stout : 

 terminal clasp segment moderately stout, long, strongly curved; dorsal 

 plate deeply and triangularly emarginate, the lobes somewhat divergent, 

 broadly and irregularly rounded; ventral plate broad, somewhat spatu- 

 late, broadly and roundly emarginate, both thickly setose. 



9 . Length 4 mm. Antennae extending to the fourth abdominal seg- 

 ment, sparsely haired, reddish ; 14 segments, the fifth with a stem one- 

 fourth the length of the cylindric basal enlargement, which latter has 

 a length four times its diameter, the circumfili at the basal third and 

 apically, stout and rather high ; terminal segment somewhat produced, 

 with a length five times its diameter and a knob-like process apically. 

 Palpi: first segment roundly subquadrate, the second with a length 

 nearly twice the first, the third a little shorter than the second, more 



