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Cecidomyia oxyccocana Johnson, 



Cecidomyia vaccinii J. B. Smith. Special Bull. K. , K". J. 

 Agri. Exp. Sta., pp. 31-37, figs. 16, 17, 18, 1890. Catl. 

 Ins. N. J., 360, 1890. (not Osten Sacken, Monogr. Vol. 

 I, p. 196, 1862). 



Cecidomyia oxycoccana Johns. Eut. News, X., 80, 1899. 

 This species was well described and figured by Prof. Smith 

 in his special bulletin on "The Insects Injuriously Affecting 

 Cranberries." As the name is preoccupied, I herewith take 

 the liberty of redescribiug it from Prof. Smith's work under 

 the above name. 



" In color the female is recognizable at once by the deep red abdo- 

 men, the grayish upper side of thorax, sides more yellow and 

 black head and eyes. The male is smaller than the female, of a 

 more uniform yellowish gray and also with black eyes. The legs 

 are very long and yellowish, covered with fine hairs. The antenna? 

 of the male are long and very handsome, appearing like a string of 

 beads, each bead set with long hairs in a circle around it. The au- 

 tenna? of the female are much shorter, the joints oval and closely 

 joined. The female is furnished with a long extensile ovipositor, 

 by means of which she thrusts her eggs into the very heart of the 

 young shoot, probably depositing them at the base of one of the 

 minute leaves just forming. The imago is about one sixteenth of 

 an inch in length, the wings expanding about one eighth of an 

 inch, covered with fine hair. 



" The larva is a minute orange red or yellow grub, about .06 

 inch or a trifle more in length. When fully grown the larva spins 

 a very thin and delicate pure white cocoon, in which it changes into 

 a pupa, with all the members of the future fly distinctly traceable. 

 The pupa wriggles out of the cocoon before the fly emerges and 

 makes its way to the edge of the leaf by means of the little rough 

 points with which the abdomen is set- 



" There are at least four, and probably five, broods of this insect, 

 ranging in time from the beginning of May to the middle or end 

 of September, and requiring from larva to imago about thirteen 

 days. " 



Infests the terminal buds of the cranberry and " Loose 

 Strife ' (Lysimacliia terrestriti') in the vicinity of Janiesburg 

 and other sections of the State. 



Teucholabis complexa Osten Sacken. 



The larvae of this species was found in considerable number 

 under the bark of a decayed oak in the woods below Peer- 

 mont (Avalon), on June 8th. They commenced pupating 



