"6 {September, 
A PRELIMINARY ACCOUNT OF CECIDOMYIA DORYCNII, sPEc. NovA, 
AND OF CALLIMOME DORYCNICOLA, spec. NovA, ITS PARASITE. 
BY ALBERT MULLER. 
The materials at my command concerning this Cecidomyia are ex- 
ceedingly fragmentary, and hence my notice partakes of the same 
character. If, nevertheless, I bring it forward, my wish to call atten- 
tion to the little we know of southern gall-flies must be my excuse. 
Thanks to Mr. Stainton, the Micro-Lepidoptera of the “sunny south ” 
have had their day of reckoning up; that of the Micro-Diptera has 
yet to come. 
Food-plant : Dorycnium suffruticosum. 
Locality : Mentone ; April (Mr. H. T. Stainton). 
Egg: laid in the axil of the stem, from whence the bundle of 
verticillate leaves ought to spring, and where a gall, consisting of the 
transformed leaves, appears instead. 
Gall: monothalamous, as long as the full-grown normal leaf, oval, 
bud-shaped, with a pointed and sometimes curved apex, standing stiffly 
onashort peduncle; ground-colour ashy-grey, clothed with a silver-white 
pubescence, which is longer than that of the normal leaf; interior of 
the oval upright cell dark olive-green and smooth. 
Larva and pupa unknown. These two stages are passed inside the 
gall, as proved by the armed basis of the feeler-cases of the pupal skin 
(noticed below), which aids the mature pupa to pierce the gall. 
Pupal integument: length 3-4 millim.; slender (2) or stout (?); 
pale brown, except the limbs, which are almost transparent, head small, 
deeply imbedded ; feeler-cases detached, gracefully curved back over 
the thorax, their tips reaching as far as the first abdominal segment, 
their united basis is protruded into a double spur, beneath which there 
appear two shorter spurs, standing in a line; thorax slightly arched, 
polished ; xo notch between it and the abdomen; wing-cases reaching 
to the middle of the third abdominal segment; outer and central pair 
of leg-cases equally long, stretching just over the fifth abdominal seg- 
ment ; middle pair a little shorter. 
Imago: expans. alar.9 millim. I have only seen fragments, in- 
cluding wings, by which it appears that Cec. dorycnii belongs to the 
sub-genus Asphondylia of Loew, which location its ceconomy, so far as 
known, and the shape of the pupal skin already point out. It is closely 
