Oligotrophus betheli

Cembrotia coloradensis

Neolasioptera verbenae

Asphondylia diplaci

Asphondylia enceliae

Contarinia zauschneriae

Oligotrophus betheli, new species.

Gall: Length 7 mm., brown, fleshy, conical and containing an orange or yellowish larva in a central cavity some 3 mm. long.

Host:
Juniperus osteosperma (syn. Juniperus utahensis)

Janetiella coloradensis, new species.


Gall. — Length 4 to 5 mm., diameter 3 mm. This is a more or less regular, oval swelling at the base of the needles, containing near the center, a smooth, oval cell some 3 mm. long. 

This fly was reared from cylindric enlargements of the flower stalks of Verbena prostrata collected by P. H. Timberlake, November 13, 1910, in the Puente Hills, Whittier, Cal. ... November 30 one gall was full of healthy larvae evidently hibernating in silken tubes attached to the walls of the gall.

Gall. — This is a cabbage-like, densely woolly, apical growth of modified leaves having a diameter of about 14 mm.

Asphondylia enceliae, new species.
Gall--Length 10 mm., diameter 4 mm., a leaf bud deformity with walls only about 1 mm. thick, each containing one large, light yellowish larva ... 

Several specimens were reared February 23 and 25, 1911, from leaf bud galls on Encelia californica collected ... in ... Whittier, California

Thecodiplosis zauschneriae, new species

Gall. --- These are apical rosettes or loose cones of leaves occurring on the dwarfed branches, the larvae living within the center of the small folded leaves. 

New gall midges or Itonidae