102 Journal New York Ent. Soc. [Voi.. ii. 



Anthrax edwardsii, sp. nov. 



lilack, tlie legs, excepting apex of tarsi, yellowish. File of front and face black, 

 the tomentum coppery; face slightly retrtaling below, proboscis not projecting 

 beyond the epistoma; base of third antenna! joint very short sub-conical, the re- 

 maining portion slender and sub-linear; tomentum of occiput, middle of thorax and 

 scutellum coppery; pile on sides of thorax white, that on the front end and on the 

 pleura yellowish- white except a stripe of black pile on upper part of pleura and a 

 nairow frint^e of the same color next the head, continued across the front end of 

 the breast, remaining pile of breast yellowish-white. Tomentum on bases of ab- 

 dominal segments two to five black, that on the apices and on the whole of the 

 sixth and following segments, coppery; the dense pile of the first segment, and on 

 front half of the sides of the second segment, yellowish-white, that on sides of the 

 remaining portion of the abdomen black, bordered above with yellowish-white; 

 pile of venter white, that at the apex largely black. Legs not fringed with erect 

 scales, yellow tomentose, the pile and bristles black; front tibice destitute of bristles, 

 claws of front tarsi small; pulvilli wanting. Wings hyaline, the base brown, the 

 outline of this color distinct, extending from apex of the auxiliary vein transversely 

 to the second, then basally a considerable distance, than transversely to the last 

 third or fourth of the discal cell, then basally to the small crossvein, then across 

 the discal and fourth posterior cells slightly before tbe base of the third, then 

 curving through the anal cell slightly beyond its middle and obliquely crossing the 

 axillary cell near its first third; crossvein within the brown bordered with yellowish 

 white. Length, 6 to lo mm. 



One specimen, Vancouver Island ; five specimens, San Fran- 

 cisco district, California. Collected by the late Hy. Edwards. 

 Types in American Mitseum of Natural History and in my collection. 



NOTES ON THE TENTHREDINID GALL OF 



EUURA ORBITALIS ON SALIX AND ITS 



OCCUPANTS. 



By C. H. Tyler Townsend. 



From July 8 to ii, 1892, there were found in the Grand Cafion, 

 Arizona, 2500 ft. below south rim at Hance's, great numbers of 

 elongate stem-galls on a narrow-leafed A?//.v sp., probably S. ioiii^^i- 

 folia Muhl. These galls are simply an enlargement of the twig or 

 stem of the willow. Many were emi)ty at this date, with an exit 

 hole in the side. Others were still inhabited, and contained small 

 whitish larvae, apparently hymenopterous. 



The same galls were found very plentiful in the Alameda 

 near Las Cruces, N. M., Nov. 14, 1892, on .9. longifolia. One gall 

 opened contained a whitish tenthredinid larva with blackish head. 

 Seven more of the galls opened this date contained 10 small oval 

 pure white larvae, 3 large whitish tenthredinid larvae with brown 



