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short, stout, with a length about equal to its diameter, the second 

 rather stout, with a length about three times its diameter, the third 

 one-half longer than the second and more slender, the fourth about 

 as long as the third, dilated; face fuscous yellowish. Mesonotum 

 reddish brown, the submedian lines rather thickly haired. Scutellum 

 reddish brown, yellowish apically; postscutelliim a light fuscous 

 brown. Abdomen dark reddish brown with irregular fuscous mark- 

 ings dorsally and laterally on the basal segments and rather thickly 

 clothed with fine, yellowish hairs. Genitalia fuscous yellowish. 

 Wings hyaline, costa pale straw; halteres yellowish transparent. 

 Coxae, femora and tibiae pale yellowish; tarsi pale yellowish, the 

 second to fourth segments annulate with dark brown, the fifth 

 reddish brown; claws long, stout, strongly curved, pulvilh rudi- 

 mentary, one-third the length of the claws. Genitalia; basal clasp 

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

 long, deeply and narrowly incised, the lobes narrow, tapering, 

 narrowly rounded; ventral plate short, stout, subtruncate; style 

 long, stout. Type Cecid. 255. 



Mycodiplosis pulvinariae Felt 



1912 Felt, E. P. Ent. News, 23: 175-76 

 1914 — ■ — ■ — ■ — ■ — ■ Econom. Ent. Jour., 7:458 



The midges were reared from Pulvinaria pyriformis 



by W. H. Patterson, St Vincent, W. I. 



Mycodiplosis acarivora Felt 



1907 Felt, E. P. Ent. News, 18:242 (Cecidomyia) 



1908 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 385, 403 



1914 — ■ — ■ — ■ — ■ — • Econom. Ent. Jour., 7:458 



This light-brown species, received through the courtesy of Dr L. O. 

 Howard, bureau of entomology. United States Department of 

 Agriculture, was reared by Frederick Maskew of southern California, 

 from larvae feeding upon red spiders, Tetranychus myti- 

 1 a s p i d i s and T. sexmaculatus, infesting lemon leaves 

 •and fruit at Chula Vista, Cal. This species appears to be a rather 

 common enemy of the red sp'.der, since lots received through the 

 courtesy of Doctor Howard show that this or a very closely allied 

 form was reared from red spider on the Kentucky coffee tree, 

 Gymnocladus canadensis, and from this mite on corn. 



Habits. The following account transcribed from notes made by 



Theodore Pergande August 24, 1883 relates to a form belonging to 



this genus and very probably to the species under discussion. 



I noticed today on some of the leaves of corn in my yard, which 

 had a sickly appearance, large numbers of the red spiders infesting 



