324 EDWARD NORTON. 



near the middle ; wings faintly clouded; eross-nervure of tlie lanceo- 

 late cell straight. 



% . — Color black. Antennse black, quite short, 15-jointed, with 

 twelve rays on each side, those at the base nearly as long as on the sixth 

 and seventh joints of flagellum; apical joint simple, enlarged at base ; 

 abdomen beneath and at base yellow-brown ; legs at base, of the same 

 color; below the knees whitish. 



Massachusetts. (A. S. Packard.) 



The larva) were collected by Mr. Fish at Eastham (Cape Cod), rava- 

 ging the young pitch-pines of that region. The eggs are laid singly 

 in the side of the pine needle, sometimes one on each side of the leaf 



t>. L. Abbotii. 



Lopliyrus Abbotii, Leach, Zool. Misc. iii, 1819, 2 9- Lepel. Mon. Tenth. 56, 

 1 J9. Fitch, Nox. Ins. iv, 60, 275. Riley, Prairie Farmer, May 25, 1859. Pack- 

 ard, Guide, p. 226, fig. 153. 



?. — Long, 0.32; wings 0.66 inch. %. Long, 0.25; wings 0.50 inch. 



$. — Antennas 17-jointed, stout; a strong blunt process as long as 

 width of joint on all but the final article, which is quite short and partly 

 concealed in the one preceding; nasus emarginate ; the three apical 

 joints of maxillary palpi short, third joint as long as fourth and fifth; 

 head, thorax above and pleura covered with coarse separated punc- 

 tures ; spurs of hinder tibioe long and blunted; claws with a strong 

 inner tooth distant about one-third their length from the tip ; color 

 yellow-brown; antennae black, with the basal half of third joint pale; 

 tip of mandibles, sides of metathorax and claws black; palpi, tegu he, 

 collar, pleura, sides of abdomen and tibiie waxen-white; wings faintly 

 clouded; lanceolate cell with slightly oblique cross nervure. 



% . — x\ntennje 18-jointed, rays apparently fifteen on each side (C. 

 V. Riley states eighteen on one side and fifteen on the other); apical 

 article clubbed ; color of antennae and body above black; labrum, palpi, 

 tegulfe and edge of collar white ; remainder of body and legs yellow- 

 brown ; spurs of inner tibiae apparently not cleft; basal half of wings 

 clouded; lanceolate cell with straight cross-nervure. 



Hah. — Georgia, (Leach) ; Indiana, (Riley). 



Found destroying the leaves of the white pine at Valparaiso, Ind. 

 ''These flies appear early in June. There is but a single brood of 

 larva3 which remain on the trees in Illinois until November (I) and 

 hiberate before changing into pupae." 



7. Lopliyrus Akhursti, n. sp. 



9. Long, 0.30. Br. wings, 0.66 inch. 

 $ . — Autennw 17-jointed, quite tapering toward the tip ; processes 



