CEC1DOMYIA. Ill 



with Hack bands. Oviduct very short, with two rounded valves. Legs 

 pale brown ; femora yellowish at the base. 

 Habits unknown. 



109. limbata, Winn. Linn. Ent. viii. 266. 58 (1853). Icem. 

 fulva, capite palpisque flavis, antennis fuscis corpora brevioribus, tlio- 

 race vittis tribits nic/ro-fuscis, pectore nigro, alis lirnpidis basi Jlavescenti- 

 bus dense nigro-pilosis margine nigro, abdomine nigro-fusco incisuris 

 fulvis, oviductu brevi lamellis duabus ovatis, pedibus nigris, femoribus 

 tibiisque subtus albis. Long. 4. Hn. 



Fern. Tawny. Head and palpi yellow. Antennae brown, two-thirds 

 of the length of the body ; joints five times the length of the petioles. 

 Thorax with three blackish-brown stripes. Pectus black. Wings limpid, 

 very pubescent, yellowish at the base ; transverse veinlet joining the 

 middle of the subcostal vein ; anal vein and its second branch forming 

 a slightly obtuse angle. Abdomen blackish - bro wn ; sutures tawny. 

 Oviduct short, with two oval valves. Legs black ; femora and tibiae 

 white beneath. 



Lives in rosettes or rose-like galls on Salix amygdalina, with 

 C. heterobia. 



110. botularia, Winn. Linn. Ent. viii. 266. 59 (1853). Fulva, 

 proboscide albida, palpis fuscescentibus, antennis fuscis basi flavis, tho- 

 race vittis tribus parvis pallide fuscis, alis magnis limpidis cinereo-hirtis, 

 venis pallide fuscis, abdominis incisuris fuscis, segmentorum marginibus 

 posticis albo-hirtis, pedibus fuscescentibus subtus pallide flavescentibus ; 

 Mas, antennis corpore longioribus 26-articulatis ; Foem. antennis 14-ar- 

 ticulatis corporis longitudine, oviductu brevi lamellis duabus longis ellip- 

 ticis. Long. -f~y lin. 



Tawny. Thorax with three brown stripes. Wings limpid; trans- 

 verse veinlet joining the middle of the subcostal vein ; anal vein and 

 its second branch forming an almost right angle. Male. Antennae 

 twenty-six jointed, one-fourth longer than the body ; double joints as 

 long as their petioles. Fern. Antennae fourteen-jointed, as long as the 

 body; joints towards the tips longer by one-half than their petioles. 

 Oviduct short, longer by one-half than their petioles. 



Lives in elongated galls on the main ribs of the leaves of Fraxi- 

 nus excelsior; changes to a pupa in the earth. 



111. Pini, Deg. Ins. vi. 156. 28 (1778); Latr. ; Meig.; Mcq. ; 

 Ratz. ; Winn. laterella, Zett. Nigricans, antennis fuscis basi flavis, 

 palpis fulvis, thoracis lateribus abdomineque rufo- fuscis, alis lacteis, 

 venis anticis fuscis, pedibus fuscis subtus argentatis ; Mas, antennis 

 corpore longioribus, articulis duplicatis longi-petiolatis, halteribus albis ; 

 Fcem. antennis corporis dimidio paullo longioribus, oviductu brevi flavo 

 lamellis duabus parvis ovatis. Long. 1-1^ lin. 



Blackish. Abdomen and sides of the thorax reddish-brown. Wings 

 milk-white ; transverse veinlet somewhat beyond the middle of the 



