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ending in a stigma and a claw-like projection, postmarginal vein 

 extending to the apex of the wing ; tips of femora, tibiae and tarsi 

 honey-yellow; abdomen subsessile, cylindrical, pointed at apex, 

 and about three times as long as the rest of the body. 

 Male : length 2.5 mm. ; abdomen only one-third longer than rest 

 of body, and less pointed than in the female. 

 Bred from eggs of tree crickets. 



Rileya Ashmead. 

 Megastigma. 

 °R. cccidomyiae Ashmead. 



Female and male: length 1-2 mm.; mostly yellowish; head 

 blue, face sometimes green; head of male may be all blue; 

 propleurae and tegulae of male may be pale yellowish ; thorax of 

 male sometimes blue; wings hyaline; legs may be pale yellowish 

 or almost white in the male, except a brown stripe along upper 

 tdgt of posterior tibiae and tarsi; abdomen occasionally with 

 some greenish spots ; venter of male sometimes all pale yellowish. 

 Bred from a Cecidomyid gall on Baccharis halimifolia. 



Bnichophagus Ashmead. 



B. funcbris Howard. Clover-seed Chalcis. U. S. Dept. 

 Agric, Bureau of Entomology, Circular No. 69, Figs. 5, 6, 7, 8. 



Length about 1.7 mm. ; mostly black, lower part of anterior 

 legs and all tarsi light brown. 



Egg whitish, polished and smooth. Larva whitish, com- 

 pletely filling the seed shell when mature. Pupa whitish, but 

 changing to brown prior to the emergence of the imago. 



This remarkable insect is one of the few injurious 

 Gialcidoidea, in that it lays its eggs directly in the seeds of red 

 and crimson clover and alfalfa, whereupon the larva hatches and 

 then completely destroys all of the seed inside the shell. 



New Haven, 20 July, 1904 (W. E. B.). 



Eurjrtoma Illiger. 

 °E. studiosa Say. 



Length less than 2.5 mm.; mostly black; antennae moniliform; 

 pronotum at least twice as broad as long, scutel obtusely rounded 

 behind ; wings hyaline ; knees and tips of tibiae honey-yellow, tarsi. 



