No. 22.] HYMENOPTERA OF CONNECTICUT. 40I 



img black, with the second segment concealing the following ones 

 in dry specimens. Male : body slightly longer than in the female ; 

 antennae 15-jointed, the first joint dark at the base, the second 

 yellow, globular, base of the third yellow, its tip thickened, 

 remaining joints dusky brown; head, thorax and abdomen black; 

 legs slightly darker than in the female. 



The galls of this species grow on slender peduncles on the 

 edges of the leaves of Quercus rubra and Q. coccinea. They are 

 ovate with a long curved point, 3 by 4 mm. in dimensions exclu- 

 sive of the tip and the peduncle, which latter is from 6 to 12 mm. 

 in length and is evidently the prolongation of the lateral leaf 

 veins. When fresh the gall proper is smooth and has a somewhat 

 glaucous hue which mostly disappears in drying, at which time 

 there is a change to a dark, dirty, olive brown color. The larval 

 cell, which is free, smooth and oval, is i by 2.5 mm. in dimensions. 



Type locality: Waterbury. 



Holcaspis Mayr. 



H. globulus Fitch. Oak Bullet Gall. PI. vi. Fig. 4. 



Female: length 5 to 6 mm.; mostly black; head, thorax, and 

 abdomen except the hind margin of the second segment, dense- 

 ly covered with whitish pubeseence; antennae 14-jointed and 

 black ; wings with distinct veins, radial area not closed ; abdomen 

 minutely punctate. Galls occur c«i the young shoots of Quercus 

 montana, Q. alba and other oaks, in recently cut woodlands. 



Waterbury (Bassett) ; New Haven, 27 May, 1907 (B. H. W.). 



*H. nigosa Bassett. 

 Female: length 4 mm.; antennae dark brown, 14-jointed, first 

 joint club-shaped, second broader than long, third longer than 

 the first two combined, fourth as long as the first two, the four 

 following gradually shorter, the ninth and following equal in 

 length ; thorax covered with short appressed yellowish white 

 hairs which nearly hide the punctate surface, mesonotum with a 

 number of parallel lines beside the parapsidal grooves to which 

 all the additional lines are also parallel and equidistant ; legs dark 

 reddish brown ; wings hyaline, veins blackish brown and quite dis- 

 tinct, the subcostal and second transverse veins darkest, areolet 

 present, cubitus reaching only half-way from the areolet to the 



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