KEPOKT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST IQl/ 93 



CONTARINIA Roild. 



Eudiplosis Kieff. 

 Slklodiplosis Kiefif. sub. Ren. 

 1860 Rondani, C. Soc. Sci. Nat. Milano Atti, 2:4, 9 

 1894 Kieffer, J- J- !^"c. Ent. Fr. BuL, 58:28 (Eudiplosis and Stictodiplosis) 



1896 Wien. Ent. Zeit., 15:94. 9^-99 



1897 — ^— Syn. Cecid. de Eur. & Alg., p. 31 



1900 — ■ vSoc. Ent. Fr. Ann., 69:447 



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



1910 Rabsaamen, E. H. Zeitsch. Wissenschaft. Insektenbiol., 15:284 



191 1 Felt, E. P. N. Y. Ent. Soc. Jour., 19:51 



19 13 Kieffer, J. J. Gen. Insect., fasc. 152, p. 178 



This genus, as characterized by earher writers, has the two nodes 

 of the flagellate antennal segments of the male equal or nearly so, 

 each with one circumfilum. The palpi are quadriarticulate and the 



Fig. 25 E n d a p h i s a m e r i c a n a , ovipositor oi female (enlarged, original) 



pulvilli shorter than the simple claws. The costa is interrupted 

 after its union with the third vein. Both dorsal and ventral plates 

 are deeply bilobed. The ovipositor is long, slender and apparently 

 needle-shaped. Type, Tipula loti DeG. 



Key to Species 



a Small, yellowish species with very few or no fuscous markings 



b Basal portion of the stem of the fifth antennal segment in the male with 

 a length less than twice its diameter 

 c Mesonotum fuscous yellowish, the dorsal plate with the lobes broad, 

 obliquely truncate and sparsely setose. Reared from grape 



blossoms johnsoni Sling., ai 845 



cc Mesonotum yellowish brown, the dorsal plate with the lobes broad, 



broadly rounded and sparsely setose apically 



t r i f o 1 i i Felt, C. 108 



