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very pubescent or scaly. Claws long, slender, evenly curved, the pulvilli a 

 little shorter than the claws. Genitalia ; dorsal plate divided, the lobes broadly 

 oval, densely setose ; ventral plate deeply and triangularly emarginate, the 

 lobes tapering, narrowly rounded and coarsely setose. Color characters from 

 Timberlake. Type Cecid a23i8. 



Two dead specimens were removed from a cabbage-like apical 

 growth on Diplaciis longiflonis collected October i, 191 1, by P. H. 

 Timberlake in the Puente Hills, Whittier, Cal. He also observed a 

 female Torymius ovipositing in the gall. This species runs in our key 

 near to A. sambiici Felt, from which it is easily separated by the 

 narrow, sparsely haired wings. 



Asphondylia enceliae, new species. 



Gal!. — Length 10 mm., diameter 4 mm., a leaf bud deformity with walls 

 only about i mm. thick, each containing one large, light yellowish larva. 



Exuvicc. — Length 4 mm., stout, light brown. Leg cases extending to the 

 fourth abdominal segment, wing cases to the third ; the dorsum of each 

 abdominal segment with one well developed transverse row of stout, chitinous 

 spines posteriorly and anteriorly two irregular, shorter rows of similar 

 spines ; the posterior segment with one median and two pair (sometimes three 

 pair with no median spine) of submedian moderate sized, chitinous spines 

 and two larger lateral spines. 



Female. — Length 4 mm. Antennae nearly as long as the body, sparsely 

 haired, light brown; 14 segments, the third with a length 7 times its diameter, 

 the fifth with a length 5 times its diameter. Palpi ; first segment short, irregu- 

 lar, second with a length 2J/2 times its diameter, the third long, distinctly 

 tapering, with a length twice the preceding. Face light brown. Mesonotum 

 gray, the submedian lines dark gray. Scutellum dark gray, with a whitish 

 pubescence. Abdomen fuscous, the contents reddish and clothed with a dense, 

 grayish white, appressed pubescence ; lobes of ovipositor blackish. Wings 

 with a grayish pubescence, thus infuscated and with a length fully twice the 

 width. Halteres orange colored, the club fuscous basally, the stalk light yel- 

 lowish. Coxae gray, the remainder of the legs brownish and covered with a 

 short, white pubescence. Claws slender, strongly curved, simple, the pulvilli 

 as long as the claws. Ovipositor when extended as long as the abdomen. 

 Color characters after Timberlake. Type Cecid a23i7. 



Several specimens were reared February 23 and 25, 191 1, from 

 leaf bud galls on Encelia californica collected by P. H. Timberlake 

 in the Puente Hills, Whittier, Cal. This species runs in our key to 

 near A. ilicoides Felt, from which it is easily separated by the rela- 

 tively much longer and narrower wings. 



Thecodiplosis zauschneriae, new species. 



Gall. — These are apical rosettes or loose cones of leaves occurring on 



