324 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan 



Cecidomyia ozyococaoa Jobuson, 



Cecidomyia vaccinii J. B. Smith. Special Bull. K., N. J. 

 Agri. Exp. Sta., pp. 31-37, figs. 16, 17, 18, 1890. Catl. 

 Ins. K. J., 360, 1890. (not Osten Sacken, Monogr. Vol. 

 I, p. 196, 1862). 

 Cecidomyia oxycoccana Johns. Ent. News, X., 80, 1899. 

 This species was well described and figured by Prof. Smith 

 in his special bulletin on ^'The Insects Injuriously Aflecting 

 Cranberries." As the name is preoccupied, I herewith take 

 the liberty of redescribing it from Prof. Smith's work under 

 the above name. 



" In color the female is recognizable at once by the deep red abdo- 

 men, the grayish upper side of thoi^ax, sides more yellow and 

 black head and eyes. The male is smaller than the female, of a 

 more uniform yellowish gray and also with black eyes. The legs 

 are very long and yellowish, covered with fine hairs. The antennae 

 of the male are long and very handsome, appearing like a string of 

 beads, each bead set with long hairs in a circle around it. The an- 

 tennae of the female are much shorter, the joints oval and closely 

 joioed. The female is furnished with a long extensile ovipositor, 

 by means of which she thrusts her eggs into the very heart of the 

 young shoot, probably depositing them at the base of one of the 

 minute leaves just forming. The imago is al)out one sixteenth of 

 an inch in length, the wings expanding about one eighth of an 

 inch, covered with fine hair. 



"The larva is a miimte orange red or yellow grub, about .06 

 inch or a trifle moix* in Icagtli. When fblly grown the larva spins 

 a very thin and delicate pure white cocoon, in which it changes into 

 a pupa, with all the members of the future fly distinctly tmceable. 

 The pupa wriggles out of the cocoon before the fly emerges and 

 makett i(H way to the edge of the leaf by means of the little rough 

 points with wtiich the abdomen is set- 



" There are at least four, and probably live, broods of this insect, 

 ranging in time from the heginning (»f May to the middle or end 

 of Hopl ember, and rc(|ni ring from larva to iiHii^^o about thirteen 

 d«y». " 



lufeHtM the t<'rmin:il ImkIh of the craiilx'rry and '' Loose 

 Strife " (LyHimarhin tnrcMtriM) in the vicinity of Jamesburg 

 and other Hec^tioiiH of the Htnte. 



TWMJWlabto Mi^tol* Oirton Kiieki!li. 



The laiTflB of Ihrn HiMMdt'H whm found in (^UHiderable number 

 under the Imrk of a (leuiye<l (uik iu the woods Inflow l*eer- 

 mont (Avalon), on June Kth. They C4>mmeue«d piipatiug 



