XEW CECIDOMYIIDAE FROM PHLOX — GREENE 551 



the head ; posterior two segments tapering slightly toward the caudal 

 end; color in life orange to reddish; breast plate absent. Antenna 

 slender, cylindrical, tapering anteriorly, about six times as long as 

 its basal diameter, located on a small, rounded tubercle. Posterior 

 segment with a large pointed tubercle on each posterior angle ; below 

 these a pair of smaller tubercles that are less widely separated than 

 the others; a large bristle on each side of the last segment, anterior 

 to the large tubercle. Segments 1 to 11 each with a dorsal, transverse 

 row of eight bristles. The ventral side of seg-ments 2 to 10 each with 

 an ambulatory area having minute spines, arranged in about four 

 transverse rows. 



Tyfe localiti/.— Chagrin Falls, Ohio, August 10, 1939. Other 

 specimens from Wooster, Ohio, August 9 to 12, 1937 ; Chagrin Falls, 

 Ohio, August 24, 1938. All reared from phlox by Dr. C. R. 

 Neiswander. 



Type male and 5 pamtypes. — U.S.N.M. No. 54188. 



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