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Mesonotum dark red, the submedian lines sparsely haired. Scutel- 

 lum and postscutellum dark reddish brown. Wings hyaline, the third 

 vein nearly straight. Coxae dark brown ; legs mostly a brownish straw, 

 the tarsi somewhat darker ; claws long, unusually slender, the pulvilli 

 about as long as the claws. 



Abdomen sparsely haired, the sclerites dark brown, the incisures and 

 pleurae fuscous yellowish. Genitalia fuscous yellowish ; basal clasp 

 segment stout, tapering ; terminal clasp segment short, tapering ; dorsal 

 plate deeply and narrowly incised, the lobes tapering slightly to a nar- 

 rowly rounded apex ; ventral plate moderately long, broad,- deeply and 

 roundly emarginate, the lobes slender, tapering and sparsely setose 

 apically. 



2. Length, 2.5 mm. Antennae extending to the base of the abdo- 

 men, sparsely haired, dark reddish brown; 17 subsessile segments, the 

 fifth with a length three-fourths greater than its diameter; terminal 

 segment reduced, narrowly oval. Palpi : first segment irregularly 

 oval, the second subquadrate, the third one-half longer than the sec- 

 ond, more slender, the fourth one-half longer than the third, more 

 slender. 



Mesonotum reddish brown or dark brown, the submedian lines 

 sparsely haired. Scutellum and postscutellum dark reddish. Halteres 

 mostly yellowish. Coxae dull yellowish ; legs mostly dark brown. 



Abdomen sparsely haired, dark brown, the incisures and pleurae red- 

 dish orange. Ovipositor as long as the abdomen, the terminal lobes 

 sparsely haired, narrow, with a length about six times the width. 



Type. Cecid. 32723. 



Asphondylia shepherdiae n. sp. 



The midges described below were reared from a bud gall on 

 Shcphcrdia canadcnsis, collected June 27, 1914, by Prof. E. 

 Bethel, at Lake Eldora, Colorado. The species runs in our 

 key to A. sambuci Felt, from which it is most easily distin- 

 guished by the pale yellowish legs. It is easily separated from 

 the western A. diplaci Felt by the distinctly narrower wings. 



Call. This is a globose, thin-walled, yellowish green, bud gall, varia- 

 bly spotted with reddish, and having a diameter of 4 to 5 mm. 



Hxuvium. Length, 4 mm., cephalic horns and the dorsum of the 

 thorax mostly yellowish, the remainder of the body dark brown, the 

 terminal segment being lighter. The dorsum of the abdominal seg- 

 ments with a transverse row near the posterior third, of moderately 

 long, stout spines, and from the middle to the anterior third, an irregu- 

 lar series of three or four rows of smaller, similar spines; terminal 



