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of dark scales. Legs pale yellow with the tarsi slightly darker at 

 the tips of the segments. 



Taken on tulip tree at Albany, N.Y. June 8, 1906. 



Type Cecid. 291, N.Y. State Museum. 



Choristoneura caryae n. sp. 



Male. Length 2 mm. Antennae shorter than the head and 

 thorax, sparsely haired, dark brown, composed of 15 and probably 

 20 segments. Head dark brown with two silvery spots at the base 

 of the antennae. Mesonotum covered with bronzy scales; scutel- 

 lum and postscutellum with long scales; tibiae clothed with very 

 large white patches of silvery scales. Abdomen clothed with pale 

 brown scales, those on the last 2 segments with a bluish tinge. 

 Legs thickly clothed with scales, pale yellowish at the base; the 

 tibiae and tarsi dark brown. 



Taken on hickory at Albany, N.Y. June 19, 1906. 



Type Cecid. 334, N.Y. State Museum. 



Choristoneura abnormis n. sp. 



Female. Length 2 mm. Antennae extending to the base of the 

 abdomen, sparsely haired, dark brown, 16 segments. Mesonotum, 

 scutellum and postscutellum dark brown. Abdomen presumably 

 a nearly uniform dark brown with irregular patches of whitish scales 

 on the pleurae. Legs mostly dark brown. 



Taken on Solidago at Albany, N.Y. July 24, 1906. 



Type Cecid. 676, N.Y. State Museum. 



Choristoneura convoluta n. sp. 



Female. Length i mm. Antennae extending to the 2d ab- 

 dominal segment, sparsely haired, light brown, fuscous basally, 

 17 segments. Mesonotum dark brown, submedian lines ornamented 

 with sparse yellowish setae; scutellum and postscutellum yellow- 

 ish brown. Abdomen nearly uniformly dark brown; ovipositor 

 pale orange. Legs mostly uniformly dark brown with irregular 

 yellowish markings. Anterior tibiae yellowish; tarsi yellowish, 

 the segments tinged with reddish brown distally ; mid and posterior 

 tarsi mostly yellowish with a faint brown annulation on the 2d seg- 

 ment. Distal segment dark brown. 



Bred from a convolute tip gall on SoHdago taken at Albany, N.Y. 

 August II, 1906. 



Type Cecid. ai3o7, N.Y. State Museum. 



