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beautiful undescribed rhynchophorus beetle. The last the 

 late Mr. Martin Linell had intended to describe under the 

 name of 



I believe with Dr. Calvert, that a name given to a gall 

 alone, without a knowledge of the gall-maker, will hold in 

 most cases, but such descriptions should be discouraged, since 

 the identification of galls, without their makers, is always at- 

 tended with uncertainty ever afterwards. 



It is so in this case, but the name given by Mr. Cameron 

 must be retained, and I give below, for the first time, the 

 description of its maker, and its parasites. 

 Andrieus ohampioni Cameron 



Cynips championi Gam. Biol. Centr. — Am. Hym I, p. 70. 

 (Gall). 



Gall-fly. — 9 Length 4.5 mm. Black, the abdomen and an- 

 terior and middle femora rufous. Head and thorax rugoso- 

 punctate, clothed with a sparse, glittering pubescence ; abdo- 

 men smooth, polished, impunctate, the sides of segments 1-7 

 with sparse glittering hairs, antennae 14 jointed, long, fili- 

 form, black, the thirdjoint the longest, more than six times as 

 long as thick, the following joints to the 13th, gradually short- 

 ening, the 13th joint being scarcely one- third the length of 

 the third joint, the last joint almost as long as 12-13 united. 

 Clypeus rounded at apex. Mandible strong, tridentate, pice- 

 ous black, the inner tooth minute, the middle and outer tooth 

 large, subequal. Mesothorax with the parapsidal furrows 

 distinct and posteriorly becoming obliterated just before at- 

 taining the base of the scutellum ; a median furrow only 

 slightly or vaguely defi ned on the middle of the disk ; ante- 

 riorly close to the margin are two short, glabrous lines ; while 

 the scapulae have a long glabrous line ; scutellum rounded, 

 rugose, the foveas at base with raised lines ; metathorax short, 

 with too median carina?. Wings hyaline, the veins piceous- 

 black, the vein at base of the open marginal being short and 

 strongly angulated. Abdomen ovate, as long as the head and 

 thorax united, polished impunctate except some sparse punc- 

 tures on the sides of the seventh segment ; sheaths of ovipositor 

 black, not at all prominent. 

 Hab — Guanajuato, Mexico. 

 Type, No. 4304 U. S. N. M. 



