54 Bulletin 2: Springfield Museum. 



Aster dumoBus. 

 Vecidomyia ? ramsysoula Beutenmuller. 



Ceeidomyiaf ramuscula Beutenmuller, Bull. Amer. mus. nat. hist., 19t)7, v. 23, p. 392, pi. 17, tig. 

 7-9. 



" This is a fusiform swelling on the branches of Asters, Aster dumosus 

 and A. patens. Inside is an elongate, narrow chamber inhabited by a 

 single larva, which remains in the gall to pupate. 10-20 mm. by 5-8 mm. 

 N. C. Adult unknown." 



Aster patens. 

 Cecidomyia? ramuscula Beutenmuller. See above. 



Rudbeckia laciniata. 

 Asphondylia conspicua Osten Sacken. Fig. 112. 



Asphondylia rudbecbiae-conspicua, Osten Sackeu, Trans. Amer. ent. soc, 1870. v. 3, p. r>l-52. 



Beutenmuller, Bull. Amer. mus. nat. hist., 1892, v. 4, p. 272; 

 1907, v. 23, p. 387, pi. 16, fig. 6. 



A very irregularly spherical fleshy gall found on flower heads of golden 

 glow, Rudbeckia laciniata, in late summer. Green. Varying in size, 1-4 

 cm. in diameter. 



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 Aldrich, J. M. 



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