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The new orders, families and genera are indicated in the following 

 table by italics. 



Orders. Fa milies. Genera. 



Salicales Salicaceae Salix. 



Juglandales ^Juglaudaceae Uicoria. 



Quercus. 



Resales Rosaceae ^Spiraea. 



Sapindales Balsaminaceae Inipatiens. 



Rhamnales Vitaceae Vitis. 



Eridales Vacclniaceae ]'(icciniuni. 



Polmomiales Labiate (Hecoma. 



Monarda. 



Cichoriaceae LO'Ctuca. 



Amhrosiaceae Ambrosia. 



Campanulales Vernonia. 



Compositae Erlgeron. 



!?!i<Jhrekia. 



HYMENOPTERA. 



CYNIPIDAE. 



DiASTKoPHus siMTLis Bassett. 



Diastrophus similis^ 



Bassett, Can. Entom. Vol. XIII, No. 5, May 1881. p. 95. 



Smith, N. J. State Bd. Agriculture 1899. 



Ashmead, Tran'fe. Amer. Entom. Soc. 1885. p. 294. 



Dalla Torre, Cat. Hymen. (Cynipidae) Vol. II. 1893. p. 108. 



Cook, Ohio Nat. Vol. Ill, No! 7 1908, p. 428. 



Cook, Ohio Nat. Vol. IV, No. 6 1904. pp. 119, 120. 



This gall is spherical in shape varying from % to % inch in diameter, 

 with one and sometimes moi*e larval chambers in the center. The larval 

 chamber is held in place by very coarse fibres which radiate from the 

 center to the tliiu outside covering. It is a pale green color and occurs 

 on the leaves and petioles of Glecoma hcderacrn. Sometimes two or more 

 galls coalesce forming a compound structure. It was at tirst described 



