40 RHODITES R0S2E. 



B. Radial cellule short, triangular ; the basal abscissa 

 angled or elbowed in the middle ; the areolet present. 



1 (4) Legs for the greater part i'ed. 



2 (3) Abdomen reddish, the radial cellule with a smoky fascia. 



Rosse. 



3 (4) Abdomen blackish or brownish-black; the radial cellule without 



a smoky fascia. Spinosissimse. 



4 (1) Legs for the greater part blackish. Nervosus. 



2. RHODITES EOS^l. 



PL X, fig. 2, galls ; PI. XII, fig. 10, <? ; 10 a, head. 



Cynips rosse, Linn., S. N., ii, 917 ; Fab., E. S., ii, 100, 2 ; S. P., 



143, 1. 

 Liplolepis bedeguaris, Geof., H. I., ii, 310, 2. 

 Rhodites rosse, Htg., Germs. Zeits., ii, 194 ; Schenck, Nass. 



Oyn., 92, 122;Tasch., Hym. Deut., 134; 



Marshall, E.M.M., iv, 173 ; Mayr, Oyn. 



Gall., 15, pi. xv, fig. 12 ; Europ. Oyn., 4 and 



5; Thorns., Opusc, viii, 791; Osten Sacken, 



Proc.Ent.Soc. Phil., 1863, 40; Fitch, Trans. 



Essex Field Club, ii, 126, fig. 6. 



Black; abdomen red, with the apex black; legs reddish, the base 

 more or less black ; wings somewhat irregularly griseous, the apex from 

 the base of radial cellule infuscated or brownish. Vertex and meso- 

 notum opaque, closely and finely aciculate ; the third antennal joint 

 twice the length of the fourth. 



The $ has the abdomen for the greater part black, the second 

 antennal joint as long as broad; the legs are more broadly black at the 

 base than in the $ . 



Length 3*5 to 4-5 mm. 



The maker of the well-known " bedeguar" or pin- 

 cushion galls of the common rose. They form a 

 woody mass on the stem, either low down or ter- 

 minal in position ; contain numerous cells, and are 

 covered all over with long greenish to reddish 

 moss-like hair. In size they are about an inch 

 on the average in diameter, but may be smaller or 

 greater. Occasionally single galls, either abortive 

 or containing only one cell, are met with on a leaf. 

 The explanation of the galls being found on a leaf is 

 that the gall really originates from a leaf, and not 

 from a bud or stem, as might at first thought be ex- 



