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in the twig without producing the gall till during the short growing 
season the following year. 
The Apioninze of the United States are remarkable for their general- 
ly small size and uniformity of color and structure, the whole subfamily 
comprising but one genus, Afzon, showing but slight variation in the re- 
lative length of antennal joints and character of tarsal claws. Where 
such uniformity obtains in a group characters may be considered generic 
which otherwise would have doubtful generic value. Podapion gallicola 
departs sufficiently both in size and structure from the typical genus to war- 
rant the formation of a new genus forit, which may be thus characterized. 
PODAPION, Nov. Gen. 
ieee large, form cylindric, parallel, elongate; elytral strize wide; ros- 
trum joining the head abruptly; legs short, robust, femora strongly cla- 
vate; tarsi greatly dilated, first joint about as wide as long, socond joint 
transverse, third joint as wide as the length of first and second together, 
claw joint flattened above, not much projecting beyond the lobes of third 
joint; claws simple in both sexes. 
PODAPION GALLICOLA, N.sp. 
Black., opaque, antennze sometimes piceous, thinly cothed with 
rather long whitish pubescence. Head broad, nearly square, rugose- 
punctate, slightly impressed between the eyes which are large, prominent 
and coarsely granulate, rostrum rather long, slender, equal throughout, 
moderately curved, more slender and nearly smooth in the female, shert- 
er and sparsely punctulate in the male; antennz inserted very close to 
base of rostrum, as long as this last; scape as long as the two following 
joints together; first joint of funicle wider, but hardly longer than second, 
the following joints gradually decreasing in length, but none being trans- 
verse; club elongate-oval, shining, slightly pubescent. Thorax as wide 
as long, widest at middle, narrowed and constricted anteriorly. sides 
rounded, surface moderately finely and densely punctulate, with a very 
short impressed’ median line at base. Elytra elongate, sides parallel, 
striz wide, finely catenulate-punctate, intervals flat, a little wider than 
the striz, finely alutaceous. Ventral surface scabrous and punctulate. 
Three specimens from Washington and others from Lake Superior, 
(Schwarz) and Massachusetts (Leconte) examined, Average length 4 mm. 
This is the first Agzonad recorded as living upon pine trees. 
The general aspect of the species is that of a small Magdalis, and 
MM, alutacea Lec. which also occurs on Prnus inops (the larva presumably 
boring in the terminal twigs) bears a striking resemblance to Podapion. 
