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great injury that the bushes do not produce a proper 

 supply of fruit for two or three years. The first brood 

 occurs in July and August, a second is met with from 

 September to the end of October. Zaddach mentions 

 that they mine the leaves of Geum urbanum, and Kal- 

 tenbach (Pfl., 512) that " the larva lives in the green, 

 hard, projecting leaf- galls on Salix aurita," where it 

 passes the winter, emerging as a fly in July. This 

 last observation is no doubt erroneous. 



Continental distribution : Sweden, Germany, France, 

 Italy, Russia. 



8. FENUSA 



Fenusa leiula, Zaddach, Beschr., 29; Cam., P. N. H. S. Glas., 

 iii, 13 ; Fauna, 23, 7 ; Andre, Species, 

 i, 232; Cat, 27* 3. 



Phyllotoma mellita, Newman, Healy, Ent., v, 1 7. 



Black, shining; covered with a fuscous pile, especially on the head 

 and thorax. Antennae longer than the head and thorax ; the joints 

 thicker at the apex than at the base, distinctly separated from one 

 another ; the first with a conspicuous petiole at the base, and truncated 

 at the apex ; third longer than the fourth ; the rest shorter ; the ninth 

 conical, thinner, and longer than eighth. Head scarcely narrower than 

 the thorax ; face densely covered with a fuscous pubescence ; sutures in 

 the vertex distinct ; frontal f ovese large and moderately deep ; the 

 central round, the lateral longer and thinner ; labrum testaceous ; palpi 

 fuscous. Thorax black, shining; tegulse testaceous. Abdomen 

 shining, as long as the head and thorax, covered with a fuscous pile, 

 which is shorter than that on the head and thorax ; apex truncate ; the 

 blotch invisible, saw projecting, sheath very hairy. Wings faintly 

 fulvous-coloured, if anything clearer at the apex; first radial cellule 

 longer than the second ; transverse radial nerviire nearly if not quite 

 interstitial ; second cubital cellule not much shorter than the first, the 

 sides above straight, not curved, in length not much longer than broad ; 

 at the lower end of the first cubital cellule is a small black dot. Legs 

 yellowish-testaceous, coxae, trochanters, and base of femora black; 

 hinder tarsi fuscous. ? . 



Length 2 lines. ] 



Larva white; head pale brown, darker at the sides, 

 mouth reddish-brown; eye spots black. The second 

 segment above bears a shield-like black plate ; beneath 

 there is a large black plate on the same segment, and 

 on each of the third fourth, fifth and sixth is a small 

 dot ; along the sides are a number of black dots ; a 



