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rectanjjjular, the third one-half longer than the second, slender, 

 tapering at each extremity, the fourth a little longer than the third. 

 Mesonotum and abdomen light brown, genitalia darker, wings hyaline, 

 costa dark brown; halteres yellowish transparent, legs yellowish 

 brown, the tarsi a little darker; claws long, evenly curved, simple, 

 the pulvilli nearly as long as the claws. Genitalia; basal clasp seg- 

 ment short, stout; terminal clasp segment short, stout; dorsal plate 

 short, deeply and narrowly incised, the lobes narrowly rounded; 

 ventral plate short, broad, deeply and triangularly incised, the lobes 

 rounded. Type Cecid. 19. 



Lobopteromj''ia abdominalis Felt 



1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State AIus. Bui. 124, p. 390 



This reddish brown male was swept May 15, 1906 from pine, 



Pinus strobus, at Albany, N. Y. 



Male. Length 1.66 mm. Antennae extending to the fourth 

 abdominal segment, rather thickly haired, light brown; 14 segments, 

 the fifth with stems one-half and two times their diameters respec- 

 tively; terminal segment, basal enlargement subglobose, the distal 

 one produced, fusiform. Pal])i; the first segment short, stout, sub- 

 quadrate, the second a little longer, broadly ovate, the third one- 

 fourth longer than the second, tapering at both extremities and the 

 fourth one-half longer than the third, more slender. Mesonotum 

 yellowish brown with indistinct submedian lines bearing straw- 

 colored hairs. Scutellum purplish brown, postscutellum reddish. 

 Abdomen reddish brown, sparsely clothed with yellowish hairs. 

 Wings subhyaline, costa brown; halteres yellowish. Coxae and legs 

 yellowish brown, tarsi a little darker; claws long, stout, evenly 

 curved, the pulvilli as long as the claws. Genitalia; basal and ter- 

 minal clasp segments long, stout; dorsal jDlate short, broad, deeply, 

 irregularly and triangularly incised, the lobes irregularly rounded; 

 ventral plate long, stout, deeply and triangularly incised, the lobes 

 broadly rounded. Type Cecid. 16. (See plate 6, fig. 6) 



Lobopteromyia venae Felt 

 1910 Stebbins, F. A. Springf. Mus. Nat. Hist. Bui. i, p. 39 

 1914 Felt, E. P. Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus, 2:120-21 

 The greenish pouchlike vein galls of this species are locally very 

 abundant on certain thorn bushes, Crataegus, at Nassau, N. Y. It 

 has been recorded from Massachusetts by Miss Stebbins. D i c r o- 

 d i p 1 o s i s V e n i t a 1 i s Felt, probably Zoophagous, has also been 

 reared from this gall. 



ENDAPHIsKieff. 



1896 Kieffer, J. J. Ent. Soc. Fr. Bui., 65:382-83 



1897 — — — Syn. Cecid. Eur. & Alg., p. 29 



1910 Rubsaamen, E. H. Zeitsch. Wissenschaft. Insektenbiol., 15:283 



191 1 Felt, E. P. N. Y. Ent. Soc. Jour., 19:50 

 1913 Kieffer, J. J. Gen. Insect., fasc. 152, p. 171 



