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Psyche 11:82, 1904.

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A well defined suture along the thoracic meson ; at 12 : 46 P. sf., with g suddenness, thorax parted along the meson, and the head and thorax shot out, were.
In 50 seconds the wings and greater part of body were out, while - ---
seconds more the fly~vas resting on the surface of thewater completely exclu At 12 : 48 (2 minutes), the pupal skin was discarded and thrown aside, and the a floated off. During the interval of time between the exclusion of the ~ings the discardingof the pupal skin, the fly was simply resting on the surface of water, the tip of the abdomen being supported by the cast skin. After floatir short distance, the body rapidly drying, it flew several yards and alighted on water, and at 12 : 50 P. M. it again flew a short distance to the shady side I log in the water. Took flight at 12 : 56 P. it. In another case exclusion occupied six minutes, and the fly fiew away e minutes afterwards.
The pupa was at first cruising over the water, the excluded wings acting as sails, until it came to rest against a half submerged upon which the adult crawled as soon as free from the pupal skin. .
Pupae and adults were present until April 38. A SUPPOSED CYNIPID GALL FROM THE ROOTS OF GOLDENROD (Solids, Desc. Gall. -Flattened, clustered, fleshy, bud-like, root-galls ; dark olive grt tinged with garnet; soft, flabby to touch ; multicellular, the la cells long ; taste neutral, like parsley ; tuber-like when large. Diameter : 4-1 1 mm. (single galls.)
Locality : Ridgeley, W. Virginia.
History, - Occasional ; larvae and parasitic pupae present ; no adults obtain 22 Au~. 1903.
A. ARSENE GIRAULT, Paris, Texm




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