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yellowish. Abdomen light fuscous yellowish, the segments thickly 

 margined posteriorly with fuscous hairs. Genitalia yellowish. 

 Wings hyaline, costa light brown. Halteres pale yellowish, fuscous 

 subapically. Coxae and femora yellowish transparent, the femora 

 distally fuscous yellowish, tibiae yellowish basally, fuscous yellowish 

 distally; tarsi fuscous yellowish; claws long, slender, strongly curv^ed, 

 the pulvilli nearly as long as the claws. Genitalia; dorsal plate 

 short, broad, deeply and roundly emarginate, the lobes slender, 

 narrowly rounded. Type Cecid. ai68ga. 



Contarinia flavolinea Felt 



1908 Felt, E, P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 392 



The species was taken in general collecting at Albany, N. Y., 



June II, 1906. 



Male. Length i mm. Antennae as long as the body, thickly 

 haired, dark brown; 14 segments, the fifth with stems two and four 

 times their diameters, respectively; terminal segment, distal 

 enlargement greatly produced, narrowly oval, with a length twice its 

 diameter, apically a long, stout, fingerlike process. Palpi; the first 

 segment produced, irregular, the second with a length nearly three 

 times its diameter, tapering at both extremities, the third more 

 slender and about twice the length of the second, the fourth more 

 slender and one-half longer than the third; face pale yellowish. 

 Mesonotum pale sooty yellow, with bright yellowish submedian 

 lines thickly clothed with fine, yellowish hairs. Scutellum sooty 

 yellowish with numerous apical setae; postscatellum a little darker. 

 Abdomen sooty yellow, sparsely clothed with pale yellowish hairs. 

 Wings rather broad, hyaline, costa light brown; halteres, coxae and 

 femora pale straw; tibiae and tarsi a variable brown or dark brown; 

 claws long, slender, strongly curved, the pulvilli about as long as the 

 claws. Genitalia; dorsal plate short, broad, deeply and broadly 

 emarginate, the lobes obliquely truncate. Type Cecid. 231. 



Contarinia virginianiae Felt 



1894 Atkinson, G. F. Cornell Univ. Agric. Exp. Sta. Bui. 73, p. 345-47 



(Cecidomyia) 

 1897 Lintner, J. A. U. S. Dep't Agric, Div. Ent. Bui. 6, n. s., p. 57-58 



(Cecidomyia) 



1897 Injur. & Other Ins. N. Y., 12th Rep't, p. 313 (Cecidomyia) 



1904 Cook, M. T. Ohio State Univ. Bui., ser. 8, no. 3, p. 116 (Cecidomyia) 



1906 Felt, E. P. Injur. & Other Ins. N. Y., 21st Rep't, p. 130-31 (Cecidomyia) 



1907 Jaxvis, T. D. Ent. Soc. Ont. 37th Rep't, p. 67 



1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 392 



1910 Stebbins, F. A. Springf. Mus. Nat. Hist. Bui., 2:40 



The larva of this species produces peculiar, enlarged fruit on th e 

 choke cherry, P r u n u s v i r g i n i a n a . It has been known for 



