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the apex. Halteres yellowish. Coxae pale yellowish ; femora and 

 tibiae pale straw, the tarsi fuscous straw ; claws long, slender, simple, 

 the pulvilli rudimentary ; basal clasp segment rather long, stout ; terminal 

 clasp segment long, slightly curved; dorsal plate long, broad, deeply 

 and narrowly incised, the lobes truncate, setose ; ventral plate long, 

 deeply and roundly emarginate, the lobes stout, roundly truncate; style 

 long. 



l-'einalc. Length 1.25 mm. Antenme nearly as long as the body, 

 sparsely haired, pale straw; 14 segments, the fifth with a stem about l /3. 

 the length of the subcylindric basal enlargement, which latter has a 

 length twice its diameter ; subbasal and subapical whorls sparse. Meso- 

 notum reddish brown, the submedian area yellowish. Scutellum and 

 postscutellum yellowish. Abdomen reddish brown, darker basally. 

 Costa reddish brown, Coxae and femora basally yellowish, 

 distal portion of femora, tibije and basal tarsal segments pale straw, 

 the distal tarsal segments darker. Ovipositor short, the terminal 

 lobes narrowly oval, thickly setose, minor lobes short, broad. Other 

 characters nearly as in the opposite sex. 



Type. Cecid. 1380, N. Y. State Museum. 



In this connection it may be well to note that Clinodiplosis 

 brasilicnsis Rubs, has been described from larvae occurring 

 in leaf galls of Manihot iitilissima. The two cannot be iden- 

 tical if Rubsaamen's generic reference is correct. 



Camptoneuromyia meridionalis n. sp. 



This West Indian form may be separated from known 

 American species by the reddish brown abdomen and the nine- 

 teen antennal segments, the fifth having a length about equal 

 to its diameter. This species was received from William H. 

 Patterson, of the Agricultural School, St. Vincent, W. I., and 

 was evidently reared March 3, 1910 with Schisomyia iponiocac 

 Felt, from flower buds of Ipouwca. 



Female. Length .75 mm. Antennae *4 the length of the body, thickly 

 haired, dark brown; 19 segments, the fifth with a length about equal 

 to its diameter; terminal segment slightly produced, with a length ! ^ 

 greater than its diameter. Palpi ; first segment probably short, the 

 second with a length three times its diameter, the third as long as 

 the second, more slender, the fourth l / longer than the third, dilated. 

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

 lum yellowish brown, postscutellum dark brown. Abdomen reddish 

 brown; ovipositor probably as long as the abdomen, the terminal lobes 



