178 Journal New York Entomological Society. [VoI. xxiv, 



certain species of Cincticornia. The twelfth antennal segment with a length 

 one-fourth greater than its diameter, the thirteenth with a length equal to its 

 diameter, and the fourteenth a flattened spheroid. Palpi ; the first segment 

 subquadrate, the second with a length over twice its width, the third slender, 

 indistinctly segmented near the middle, somewhat expanded distally and with 

 a length over twice that of the third. Mesonotum dark brown or black. 

 Scutellum fuscous orange, postscutellum fuscous yellowish brown. Abdomen 

 brownish black, the pleurae reddish. Halteres pale yellowish, fuscous sub- 

 apically. Legs brownish black ; claws stout, strongly curved, the pulvilli as 

 long as the claws. Ovipositor nearly as long as the body and presenting the 

 usual characteristics of the genus. 



Exuvium. — Length 2 nun. The anterior portion variably infuscate, the 

 thoracic horns long, stout, triangular in outline, the external margin finely 

 serrate, and the surface minutely and irregularly striate. Wing cases ex- 

 tending to the third abdominal segment and the leg cases to the fifth. The 

 anterior portion of the dorsum of the abdominal segments with a broad, trans- 

 verse, nearly uniform band of stout, triangular, chitinous processes ; posterior 

 extremity broadly rounded. Type Cecid. 1632. 



Asphondylia chrysothamni new species. 



The gall described below was reared by Mr. P. H. Timberlake 

 May 12-14, 1914, from bud galls on the rayless goldenrod, Bigclowia 

 graveolens, collected near Murray, Utah. This species is apparently 

 related to A. eupatorii Felt from which it may be easily separated by 

 the markedly shorter twelfth antennal segment and also by palpal 

 and colorational characters. 



Gall. — Swollen or enlarged leaf buds with a length of 5 to 6 mm. and a 

 diameter of 3 mm., the walls being composed of short, ovate, aborted, glume- 

 like leaflets without any specialized central cell. 



Exuvium.- — Length 3.75 mm., light brown, the heavier, chitinized portions 

 at the anterior extremity somewhat darker ; antennal horns somewhat curved, 

 triangular, smooth, acute apically, the antennal cases extending to the base of 

 the abdomen, the wing cases to the base of the second abdominal segment, 

 and the leg cases to the base of the fourth abdominal segment ; posterior ex~ 

 tremity rounded ; the dorsum of the abdominal segments with a transverse row 

 of stout, tooth-like spines near the posterior third and irregular, scattering 

 spines representing two or three rudimentary, transverse rows on the basal 

 half of each segment. 



Female. — Length 3.5 mm. Antennae nearly as long as the body, sparsely 

 haired, blackish, the third antennal segment with a length seven times its 

 diameter, the twelfth with a length a little greater than its diameter, the thir- 

 teenth a little shorter than the twelfth, the fourteenth globose. Palpi ; first 

 segment irregularly subquadrate, with a length over twice its diameter, the 

 second moderately long, stout, with a length less than twice that of the first. 



