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ever been found within these galls when they were dissected. 

 In all cases various sized hymenopterous larvae were found 

 after dissection of the galls. On the other hand, no Hymenop- 

 tera — not even Callimome — have ever been reared by the 

 writers from any Kermes either in Missouri or Texas. All 

 dissections of parasitized Kermes have shown lepidopterous 

 larvae and never hymenopterous grubs. 



Description. 



The larva (plate V, A) is a whitish grub about five millimeters long 

 and two millimeters in diameter at the fourth and fifth abdominal seg- 

 ments. The head and the first thoracic segment are chestnut-brown. 

 The pro-thoracic segment is marked longitudinally with a narrow 

 white line which continues along the vertex and down either side of 

 the front to the margins of the clypeus. The pairs of short thoracic 

 legs are edged with chestnut-brown. The pro-legs occur on the 

 third, fourth, fifth, sixth and tenth abdominal segments, and are appar- 

 ently not much developed. Each pro-leg has the crochets or hooks 

 arranged in a uniordinal circle. Fracker (1917) gives as one of the 

 characters of the Oecophoridae, the family to which Eteclcmensia bas- 

 settella (Clemens) belongs, the biordinal circle of crochets. Evidently 

 E. hassettclla (Clemens) is an "exception that proves" the rule," for 

 it has a clearly defined uniordinal arrangement. The body is but 

 sparsely dotted with setae. The spiracles are small, brownish, and 

 circular. 



The pupa (plate V, B) is light brownish in general color, measuring 

 about four milHmeters in length and about two millimeters in diameter 

 at its middle. The abdomen, in general, is a cream color, and the 

 spiracles are distinctly marked with brownish. The dorsal terga are 

 slightly chitinized with brown. The empty pupal case is a uniform 

 yellow-brown. 



Inasmuch as the original description of the adult is excellent 

 and undoubtedly inaccissible to some readers, the writers have 

 thought best to reproduce it verbatim (Clemens, 1864). 



"Fore-wings bright reddish-orange, sometimes tinted with yellowish- 

 orange, with a black spot at the base of the fold of the wing and a 

 broad black stripe showing bluish or greenish reflections along the 

 inner margin extending from the middle of the fold to the tip of the 

 wing and occupying nearly one-half the breadth of it. Along the costa, 

 about the middle of it, is a shining black stripe, which becomes nar- 

 rower as it approaches the apical third of the wing. Cilia blackish. 

 Hind wings shining, dark greenish-black. Head and thorax black. 

 Antennae black. Labial palpi yellowish-orange." (plate V, C). 



