ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION. XV 



The old press is broken in such a manner as to render its repair more 

 costly than the Committee at first realized and it was resolved to 

 abandon it entirely. This old press has now been in use about nineteen 

 years, doing all the work on five volumes of the Proceedings and eight 

 of the Transactions and two of the Practical Entomologist, beside much 

 other miscellaneous entomological printing. 



It was the gift of Dr. Thomas B. Wilson, and with the full supply of 

 type the Committee have been enabled to continue to the present year 

 without either much repair to press or renewal of type. Our present 

 volume (vol. ix), however, begins with an almost entirely new supply 

 of type. 



The Committee hope to complete a volume with the present year, 

 with at least three hundred pages, and from the information in our 

 possession the number of plates will be a.s great or greater than in 

 any preceding volume. 



In behalf of the author, Dr. Horn presented the following paper, 

 entitled 



On the €YNIPIDOUS GALLS of Florida. 



BY WILLIAM H. ASIIMEAD. 



Jacksonville, Florida. 

 [Paper No. 2.] 



GrALLs ON Catesby's Oak, Qucrcus cafeKbi^i. 

 I have found, two galls on this oak from only one of which have 

 I been able to breed the flies. This, however, is quite an interesting 

 little species. 



Cynips q. Csitesbfei n. sp. 



Go /Is. — Slight wavy swellings at the base of tender new shoots, 

 hardly \'isible to the naked eye. 



Gail-Fly . — ? . — Length .06 inch. Head and thorax black, opaque, finely rugoso- 

 punctate, not. pubescent ; antennae 15-jointed, yellowish-red; parapsidal grooves 

 distinct, two longitudinal grooves converging towards scutellum, a slight longi- 

 tudinal fovea in centre between parapsidal and longitudinal grooves, pleurse acicu- 

 late; scutellum round, coarsely punctate and bifoveolate; abdomen black, smooth 

 and shining, ventral valve long and projecting, ovipositor exserted ; wings hyaline, 

 radial area open, no areolet and no secondary veins, subcostal vein hardly yel- 

 lowish at base and becoming almost hyaline; legs yellowish-red, hind tibife 

 slightly infuscated. 



% . — Length .06 inch. Antennae 16-jointed : veins of wings almost hyaline, areo- 

 •let half closed ; abdomen with a short peduncle, ovate, description otherwise as 9 • 



Described from 3 $ $ and 1 V , bred April 28th, from galls as 

 described above. 



The only other Cynips with 16-jointed antennne known to me, is 



