ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION. T 



The Periodical Cicada, 1885, C. V. Riley. From the Author. 

 Revision des armures copulatrices des males de la Fam. de Mutillides, 

 par Radoszkowski. From the Author. 



The Publication Committee reported favorably on the following papers 

 read at the meeting in May : 



The Cynipidous (lalls of Florida, No. 4, by Wm. H. Ashmead — for 

 publication in the Proceedings of the Section, inasmuch as the preceding 

 shorter papers had been so published. 



Synopsis of the Throscidas of the United States, by George H. Horn, 

 M. D., for publication in the Transactions. 



Report of the Custodian for May was read. 



Communication No. 186 was read by title and referred to the Publi- 

 cation Committee. 



On motion the Section adjourned until September. 



On the CYNIPIDOUS OALI^S of Florida with 

 descriptions of new species. 



BY WILLIAM H. ASHMEAD, 



Jacksonville, Florida. 

 (Paper No. 4.) 



My studies on the Cynipidous galls of Florida, although continued 

 during the past four years, have been more or less interrupted by pressing 

 business engagements, yet they have resulted in revealing many new and 

 interesting forms which I now desire to bring to notice. 



GrALLS ON THE LiVE Oak. — Quercus virens. 



The fig gall, first noticed as occurring on this tree by Baron Osten 

 Sacken and mentioned in my first paper as probably identical with 

 Ct/nips q. Jicus Fitch, proves to be an entirely different species. 



For a long while I was unable to breed anything from it but Inquilines, 

 Figites and Chalcides. 



Having procured fresh specimens in the fall of 1883 I was more for- 

 tunate, and at last bred the tiall maker. 



