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and with about 11, the 4th about 7 and the 5th about 10 incomplete 

 rings, those of the 5th being "not distinct; wings 2 1/2 the length of 

 the body, stigma and veins pale fulvous, the first oblique short, less 

 than one half the length of the 2nd, lattter branching from the fn>t 

 oblique, media shorter than the stigmatic nervure, at the basal half 

 obsolete, stigmatic nervure opens in the middle of the stigma, the lattar 

 at the apex lanceolate and not curved; 2 obliques of the hind-wings 

 short and obsolete, being traced by the dotted lines, with 2 fine hooklets 

 on the costa; legs fulvous. 



Length of body 0.7 mm.; exp. tegm. 3.2 mm.; antennae 0.3 mm. 

 Nymph - Yellowish brown; the 5th joint longest, at the apex nar- 

 rowly conical, the 3rd and 4th subequal; wing-sheath reaching to the 

 2nd abdominal segment. 



Length of body 0.8 mm ; antennae 0.3 

 This is the smallest species which makes galls on the branches of 

 Rhus semidfata. 



Galls - Small, rosy red or purplish red, mostly flat, with numreous 

 short tubercles, somewhat coral-shaped, exits being made on each apex 

 of the tubercles or on the sides of the galls, and the lip of its mouth 

 being mostly upturned and relatively of a large size; with long flat, 

 often branched petioles, and with a few short hairs; the larger one 

 measuring about 20 by 15 mm. 



Hab. -Honshu (Osaka). 



F. P. - Rhus semialata. 



Nom. Jap. - Nurudeno-benifushi. 



IV. Subfam Pemphiginac. 

 Nearly allied to the subfam. Mindarinae, but the sexuales without 



