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duced in great numbers, since several hundred were found in a vial 

 containing a portion of a gall and one dilapidated female. 



Larva. It is probable, as stated above, that the whitish larva de- 

 scribed by Dr. Kieffer, /. c., p. 71, is a very young stage or does not be- 

 long to this species. A free translation of Dr. Kieffer's description 

 follows : 



Larva white, length 2 mm., smooth, the spiny warts very fine and 

 situated on the ventral part of the last two thoracic segments and all 

 of the abdominal segments. The papillae are all simple, save the eight 

 terminal ones, which are provided with very short, scarcely distinct 

 hairs; the pleural and sternal papillae are equally large; the mesial 

 pleural papillae arranged in groups of three ; the anterior ventral and 

 posterior papillae small and hardly apparent. Antennal segment round- 

 ed, deeply emarginate in the middle, dorsally with sparse granulations 

 on the anterior portion, the posterior part nearly smooth; breastbone 

 yellow, large, sessile, as long as large and with two triangular teeth 

 which have a length twice the width of the base and are separated by 

 a broadly 'rounded emargination. 



Exuvium. $ . Length 5 mm., moderately stout, yellowish transparent, 

 the thoracic horns slender, slightly curved, nearly cylindrical and with 

 a length about five times the diameter. Antennal cases probably ex- 

 tending to the base of the abdomen and with triangular basal processes 

 with a length about three times the diameter of the base and thickened 

 apically; the wing cases reaching to the tip of the second abdominal 

 segment, and the leg cases to the fifth or sixth abdominal segments; 

 the dorsum of the latter slightly chitinized and with an irregular 

 series of three or four transverse rows of chitinous spines. 



$ Length 3.5 mm. Antennae about as long as the body, thickly 

 haired, yellowish brown; 14 segments, the fifth almost trinodose, the 

 stems with a length i% and \y 2 times their diameters, respectively; 

 basal enlargement subglobose, with a sparse subbasal whorl of stout 

 setae and a subapical circumfilum, the loops numerous, with a length 

 about half the diameter of the enlargement and forming an almost 

 double row, the latter being true of the middle and distal fili ; terminal 

 segment somewhat produced, the basal portion of the stem with a 

 length about twice its diameter, the distal enlargement subcylindric and 

 with a length nearly three times its diameter, and apically a large, 

 fusiform appendage, a rudimentary segment. 



Palpi; first segment irregularly ovoid, the second a little longer and 

 stouter, the third more than twice the length of the second and 

 tapering uniformly from a somewhat swollen base. Eyes holoptic. 



Mesonotum dark reddish brown. Scutellum concolorous, postsctitel- 

 lum dark reddish brown. Abdomen dark yellowish brown, somewhat 

 variable, the genitalia yellowish ; the terminal clasp segment fuscous 

 apically. 



