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villi is greatly produced, having a length nearly thrice that of the claw and a width 
greater than the length of the claw. Ovipositor short, the lobes broad, roundly 
truncate and thickly clothed with short, stout, spiny hairs. Type Cecid. a 2921. 
Asphondylia dondle n. sp. The male described below was reared 
from deformed leaves on sea blite, Suceda or Dondia multiflora , collected 
by Professor E. Bethel, April, 1918, at Point Fermine, Calif. It is 
related to A. vernonioe Felt and A. ceanothi Felt from which it is most 
easily separated by color characters and variations in the length of the 
third antennal and palpal segments. 
The gall is a blackish, globose, sessile, leafy deformation with a 
diameter of 3 mm. 
Larva. Length 1.75 mm. Stout, yellowish orange, head short, broad, antennae 
short, broadly triangular, biarticulate, the terminal segment with a length nearly 
equal to its diameter. Breastbone quadridentate, the anterior portion with a width 
nearly double the posterior part, skin coarsely shagreened, posterior extremity 
broadly rounded. 
Exuvium. Length 3 mm. Moderately stout, reddish brown and with characteris- 
ticly developed rows of spines on the dorsum of the abdominal segments. 
Male. Length 3.5 mm. Antennae nearly as long as the body, sparsely haired, 
dark brown, fourteen segments, the third with a length five times its diameter. Ter¬ 
minal segment with a length about four times its diameter and tapering slightly to a 
broadly rounded apex. Palpi, first segment short, broad, the second about one-half 
longer than the first, the third more slender, fourth nearly as long as the third. Mes- 
onotum dark brown, the submedian lines thickly clothed with long, white hairs. 
Scutellum yellowish brown with exceptionally long, whitish hairs. Postscutellum 
reddish orange. Abdomen dark reddish brown, sparsely clothed with yellowish 
hairs. Wings almost subhyaline, the membrane with a fuscous tinge. Halteres 
reddish orange, fuscous subapically. Coxae dark brown, legs mostly dark straw, the 
tarsi nearly black. Claws rather slender, strongly curved, the pulvilli a little shorter 
than the claws. Genitalia; basal clasp segment short, stout, terminal clasp segment 
greatly reduced, almost unidentate, dorsal plate short, broad, broadly and triangularly 
emarginate, the short lobes partly rounded. Ventral plate short, broadly and roundly 
emarginate, the lobes acute, both plates thickly setose. Type Cecid. a 2892. 
Thecodiplosis cockerelli n. sp. The gall of this insect, or at 
least one nearly indistinguishable therefrom, was received from Glen 
Eyrie, Colorado Springs, Colo., through Professor T. D. A. Cockerell, 
in December, 1907. Specimens were received from Ivan Way, Ox¬ 
ford, Colo., from which a female was reared in 1918. The species is 
probably generally distributed in Colorado at least. 
The gall is an irregular, kidney-shaped enlargement of the needles 
of Pinus edulis. It has a length of 7 mm., a diameter of 4 mm.; the 
walls are thick and the needles rudimentary. 
Female. Length 1.75 mm. Antennae extending to the base of the abdomen,, 
sparsely haired, fuscous yellowish, fourteen segments, the fifth with a stem one-fourth 
the length of the cylindric basal enlargement, which latter has a length two and one- 
half times its diameter. Terminal segment somewhat reduced, the basal enlarge- 
