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zend, nur an den aussersten Randern mit einigen zerstreuten Punkten; 
Vorderbrustseiten punktirt, Mittelbrustseiten polirt mit einem fein runz- 
ligen glanzlosen Flecke unter den Vorderfliigeln. Schildchen ziemlich 
grob runzlig, etwas glanzend. Hinterleib glanzend schwarz, der des $ 
gegen das Ende zusammengedriickt, etwas hoher als lang, mit kaum 
merklichem Stielchen; der des $ klein, sehr zusammengedriickt, gestielt; 
Stielchen kaum so lang oder kiirzer als die halbe Hinterhiifte. Fliigel 
etwas getriibt, mit schwarzbraunen Nerven. In der Humeralzelle, dort 
wo der Mittelnerv kurz unterbrochen ist, ein sehr deutliches kleines 
Wolkchen von brauner Farbe; dies Merkmal ist constant und kann als 
fur die Art charakteristisch angesehen werden. An den Beinen sind 
Hiiften und Schenkelringe schwarzlich mit gelbbrauner Spitze, die Basis 
der Schenkel an den 2 ersten Fusspaaren schwarzbraun, die der Hinter- 
schenkel meist etwas gebraunt; die Tarsen mit Ausnahme der Basis 
braun. 
Translation: On the first of May of this year I found, on low 
bushes of Quercus pubescens, a small gall which proved upon further 
study to be undescribed. This occurs laterally but never terminally on 
the twigs and older stems, and it is apparently a bud gall. The gall is 
2.75 to 4.5 mm. in length, being essentially egg-shaped, thickly set with 
a matted, upright pubescence, surrounded at the base with small, brown 
scales, and yellowish-green when mature, the young gall usually red 
and consisting of a very thin, woody but not very firm shell which 
directly encloses the larval cell. . . . 
Spathegaster giraudi, new species. Black, the palps and often the 
mandibles, the femora except for their bases (at least of the anterior 
femora) and the tibiae brownish piceous; the subcostal [?] cell of the 
anterior wings marked with a clouded spot; the mesonotum with grooves, 
polished, and naked; the abdomen of the male petiolate, that of the 
female subsessile; the antennae of the male 15-segmented, that of the 
female, therefore, 14-segmented; length 2 to 3 mm. 
The head is thickly punctate, dull; the mandibles and palps are 
usually dark, in many cases however more or less yellowish brown. 
The antennae of the female are as long as the body, often rather 
rufous basally, that of the male being longer, its third segment some- 
what incised. The mesonotum with its deep parapsidal grooves is smooth 
and shining, having a scattered punctation only on its outer margin; 
the pronotum is laterally punctate, the mesopleura polished but the 
tegulae dull and finely rugose. The scutellum apparently quite rugose, 
rather shining. The abdomen shining black, that of the female com- 
pressed posteriorly, rather higher than long, with a scarcely noticeable 
petiole; that of the male small, much compressed, petiolate, the petiole 
scarcely as long or even shorter than half the length of the hind coxa. 
Wings slightly opaque, with dark brown veins. In the subcostal [?] 
cell, right where the subcosta is abruptly broken, there is a small and 
distinct, brownish spot which is constant and may serve as a diagnostic 
character for this species. As for the legs, the coxae and trochanters 
are black with golden brown tips, the bases of the femora of the two 
