110 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



TWO NEW CYNIPIDS FROM WASHINGTON STATE. 



BY C. P. GILLETTE, FORT COLLINS, COLO. 



In February of last year I received a box of galls from Mr. Trevor 

 Kincaid, of Olympia, Washington, for identification. The galls were 

 taken from Rubus Nutkanus, and the flies reared from them early in the 

 following March prove to be a new species, which I take pleasure in dedi- 

 cating to Mr. Kincaid. 



Diast>~ophiis kincaidii, n. sp. 



Gall. — Either of the two galls in my possession measure almost 

 exactly i){ inches in length by three-fifths of an inch in greatest diameter, 

 and are upon twigs that do not exceed 2^4 mm. in diameter. The galls are 

 abrupt enlargements of the twigs, and they are literally filled with larval 

 cells. The portion of the gall-subtance lying outside the cells is quite 

 pithy, but the portion forming the septa between the cells is hard and 

 woody. The surface of the gall is smooth, but is irregularly swollen or 

 lumpy, much as in the gall of D. nebulosus. 



Gall-fly. — Female. Black; legs, dark rufous; length, 2 to 2^ mm. 



Head : face, coarsely striated ; frontal carina, smooth and shining and 

 but little elevated (it seems like a ridge made by two depressed lines, 

 one on either side) vertex, genre and occiput smooth and shining ; 

 ocelli, inconspicuous ; face, sparsely set with very fine pubescence ; man- 

 dibles, somewhat rufous at base ; antennae, 13-jointed and black in 

 colour. Thorax : mesonotum, nude, polished ; parapsidal grooves dis- 

 tinct ; median groove also distinct, but extending only a short distance 

 from scutellum ; prothorax, striate ; mesothoracic pleurae, shining, finely 

 aciculate over a portion of the surface ; scutellum rugose, bifoveate. 

 Abdomen, entirely black ; petiole, fluted, second segment occupying one- 

 half of the dorsum. Wings, 3 mm. long ; hyaline ; 1st and 2nd transverse 

 nervures, quite black, but not very heavy ; areolet, small. 



The male differs from the female in being only one and three-fourths 

 mm. long, having antennas 14-jointed, and having the abdomen smaller. 



Described from 25 females and 14 males bred from the galls. 



Synergus garryana, n. sp. 



Female. General colour rufous, with tips of mandibles, compound 

 eyes, vertex between ocelli, occiput, lower half of mesopleune, metathorax, 

 pedicel of abdomen and two blotches on second abdominal segment, one 

 next the petiole and one just beyond the middle of the dorsum, black. 



