IIG • CYNiriDOUS GALLS AND GALL-WASPS— ASHMEAD. 



connate. Mesonotiira short, neaily as l)i()a(l as long-, with two parapsidal 

 grooves, but not as distinct as usual in the genus. 



Abdomen as h)ng as the head and thorax together, compressed, when 

 viewed from tlie side, truncate behind; the ventral valve projects very 

 considerably and is armed Avith an unusually long,, hairy spine, half 

 the length of hind femur. Wings hyaline, the front wings being beau- 

 tifully clouded or spotted with brown blotches as follows: A blotch in 

 the cubital cell near the basal vein, one at the break in the anal vein, 

 one in the cell formed by this vein and the branch of the cubitus which 

 extends to the apical margin, and in the s])ace known as the second 

 submarginal cell are two blotches, one near the apex, the other at the 

 base, the last inclosing tlie wliole tii» of the radius. Veins brown, the 

 radius slightly thickened at tip; the vein at base of radial cell slightly 

 clouded. 



Ti/pcs.—^o. SOoO, U.S.N.M. 



Two female si)ecimens, reared during April, 1S81, 



5. DRYOPHANTA RADICOLA, new species. 



(jall. — This gall also could not he found in the collection. The Note 

 Book says: 



Keceivetl from .1. (i. Barlow, Cadet, Missouri, one iimcli shriveled fjall, louiid on 

 the roots of scrub oak. 



(hdljiij. — Female. Length, 3 mm. IJrick-red, antenna' ])ale. brown- 

 ish toward tips; eyes brown-black. 



Head minutely, couHuently i)unctate; collar rugose; disk of meso- 

 ])leura smooth, polished; mesonotum smooth, polished, the two parap- 

 sidal grooves broad and well defined; scutellum cushion-shaped, 

 coarsely, reticulately rugose, with two transverse, nearly confluent, 

 fove;e at base. Wings hyaline, veins blackish, the areolet and cubital 

 cell distinct. 



Tijpe.—^o. 3()()0, U.S.N.IVr. 



Described from one female si)ccimen, reared IMay 1*1, 1880. 



Genus ANDRICUS, Hartig. 

 0. ANDRICUS MORRISONI, new species. 



Gull. — An irregular, globular gall, found at the base of a leaf, ]»ro- 

 jecting about equally above and below; polythalamous. It is of a 

 lleshy consistency an<l contains numerous larval cells; diameter from 

 4 to 7 mm. 



Gallfly. — Female. Length, 2 mm. Head, thorax, and legs brown ; the 

 space surrounding eyes, antenna', and anterior tibia', yellowish, the abdo- 

 men black. Antenna' lo-Jointed, the terminal joint very long. Head, 

 thorax, i)k'ura, and scutellum minutely, rugosely punctate; parapsidal 

 grooves subobsolete, the short anterior median grooves dee])ly impressed 

 at tips and the line on the shoulders distinct. AVings hyaline, veins 



