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VOL. XL LONDON, ONT, JULY, 1879. No. 7 



ON CECIDOMYIA LEGUMINICOLA, n. sp. 



BY J. A. LINTNER, N. V. STATE MUSEUM NAT. HIST., ALBANY. 



Cecidomyia trifolii, Canadian Entomologist, vol. xi., p. 44. 1879. 



I am indebted to Dr. Hagen, of Cambridge, Mass., for the information 

 that the name which I had selected for the clover-seed fly was preoccupied 

 by Franz Loew, in Verhandl. Zool. Bot. GeselL, Wien, 1S74, vol. xxiv., 

 where he describes (p. 142) the male and female, larva, pupa and gall of 

 a species occurring in a folded leaf of TrifoHum pratense, and figures 

 (pi. 2, f. 4) the deformation of the plant. I therefore propose the name 

 of C. /eguminicola for the American species, the larva of which inhabits the 

 clover legume. 



Bremi, in his Monograph of the Cecidomyia;, 1847, p. 29, may possibly 

 refer to Loew's "species when he states : " I observed in . the same 

 place [with Ranunculus bulbosus] on the leaves of Trifolium pratense, 

 similar cornucopia? but less regular, as in some leaves only the tip was 

 rolled (pi. 2, f. 34), c ahd of others similar to a pod. The development 

 was not observed, and as I supposed it identical with Cecid. ranunculi, I 

 accept them as a variety of that- species." 



Another species may infest the clover in Europe, if the statement 

 made by Perris, in Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1870, p. 179, be reliable. He 

 states that in the tips (extremes tiges) of Trifolium subtcreaneum are to 

 be found larva? of a Cecidomyia (imago unknown). Fr. Loew, in a notice 

 of these larva? (Wien Z. B. Gesell., 1S76, p. 92), remarks that perhaps 

 they were only inquilines, and that the deformation described by Perris 

 may have been made by Acari. 



The above references have been kindly communicated to me by Dr. 

 Hagen. 



From the inquiries and examinations thus far made, it is very probable 

 that our Cecid. leguminicola does not occur in Europe. Baron Osten 



