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flat expansion ; pleurae black, punctate except a smooth shining 

 spot in the middle, with their lower part pubescent; scutel 

 punctate above, rugose behind and finely pubescent, pits at its 

 base of moderate size; the legs dark brown, pubescent, the base 

 of the femora and the knees and tarsi of the anterior pair reddish, 

 in some individuals in addition a reddish tinge at the base of the 

 femora and on the knees of the posterior pair ; wings hyaline, 

 the second transverse vein forming a knee which bears a distinct 

 stump of a vein in its middle ; abdomen pitch black, in some indi- 

 viduals, however, slightly reddish below along the hind margin 

 of the segments, its entire surface except the base of the seg- 

 ments and a narrow smooth line along the back clothed with a 

 whitish appressed pubescence, under which latter there is a mod- 

 erately dense perceptible punctuation, the second and largest seg- 

 ment of the abdomen hardly extending to its middle. 



Waterbury, on leaves of swamp oak ; Greenwich, 24 Septem- 

 ber, 1915 (M. P. Zappe). 



C. confluens Harris. Oak or May Apple. 



Length nearly 6 mm. ; head and thorax black and roughened 

 with numerous httle pits and short hairs, body posteriorly smooth 

 and of a shining pitch color; legs dull brownish red; anterior 

 wings with brown spot near the middle of the outer edge. 



The galls of this species are said to be the largest of the so- 

 called oak apples. They grow on the leaves of the red oak, are 

 round and smooth, and measure from 37 to 50 mm. in diameter. 

 At first the gall is green and somewhat pulpy, but when mature 

 it consists of a thin brittle shell of a dirty drab color which 

 encloses a quantity of brown spongy material in the centre of 

 which is a single cell about the size of a pea, which cell is the 

 final home of the larva and chrysalis. The adults emerge prob- 

 ably as a rule in the spring, but they have been noticed to come 

 out in the fall. 



New Haven, 4 June, 1908 (B. H. W.). 



Amphibolips Reinhard. 

 *A. verna Bassett. 

 Female : length 4.5 mm. ; head rugose, dusky black ; antennae 

 concolorous with the head, 14-jointed, with the first joint twice 



