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Four females and five males. Illinois and New York. (Colls. Am. 
Ent. Soe. and U.S. Nat. Mus.) 
Galls: Richfield Springs, N. Y., Th. Pergande, collector, September 
22, 1886; adults (males) issued January 27 to February 5, 1887. East 
Sh canbute: N. Y., E. L. Horton, collector, September 25, 1894; adult 
issued March 28, 1895. 
15. Pontania bruneri new species. 
Female-—Length 4.5 mm.; moderately robust; abdomen much broader 
than thorax; elypeus distinctly but broadly emarginate, lobes small; 
lateral walls of ocellar basin rounded, indistinct; frontal crest very 
slightly broken, ea third and fourth joints of antenne sub- 
equal; sheath broad, scarcely tapering, somewhat obliquely rounded 
at tip; second iene interstitial with second cubital; third cubital 
indistinct; upper discal of posterior wings considerably shorter than 
lower. Color black, shining; mouth parts, posterior orbits, angles 
of pronotum, tegulie, legs except bases of cox, brownish yellow; 
veins light brown; stigma and costa yellowish, the count nearly hya- 
line basally. The abdomen in one specimen is yellowish beneath at 
apex. 
Gall.—( Frontispiece, fig.7.) Galls occurring singly on the edges of the 
leaves of Salix longifolia, having the form and general characteristics 
of the gall of P. desmodioides. Length from 7 to 10 mm.; smooth, 
fleshy gail, extending from the midrib considerably beyond the narrow, 
linear leaf, with a prominent and distinct suture indicating what was 
the edge of the leaf; in color yellowish, inclined to reddish. 
Three females, reared from galls collected by Lawrence Bruner on 
Robinson’s ranch, Wyoming, September 15, 1881. The galls at this 
time were mostly abandoned, only six of them still containing larvee. 
Adults issued Bevween February 18 and March 3, 1882. (Coll. U.S. 
Nat. Mus.) 
16, Pontania pacifica new species. 
Female.—Length 5 mm.; rather robust; clypeus broadly, circularly 
emarginate, lobes medium; frontal crest very strongly developed, 
broken; lateral walls of ocellar basin subobsolete; antenn with joint 
3 very little longer than 4; sheath broad, not tapering, broadly rounded 
at tip; claws deeply cleft; venation nonaan except that the upper 
discal does not exceed the lower. Color in general resinous; antennie, 
large spot on vertex, including ocelli, occiput, mesonotum except 
scutellum, metanotum and the basal segment of abdomen, lower half 
of mesepimera, and sheath brownish black; veins dark brown; stigma 
somewhat lighter basally; wings very slightly infuscated. 
One female. Southern California. (Coll. Am. Ent. Soe.) 
