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fourth, each as long as the second and successively more slender. Face pale yel- 
lowish; eyes black. Body yellowish. Mesonotum fuscous, the submedian lines 
with broad, rather coarse scalelike hairs. Abdomen clothed with fuscous scales 
and a few long hairs, the incisures yellowish. Wings hyaline, the membrane with 
numerous narrow, curved scales; costa dark brown. Halteres black. Coxe yel- 
lowish; femora basally pale yellowish, the tibiz and tarsi gradually darker to dark 
brown. Claws slender, strongly curved, unidentate, the pulvilli about half the 
length of the claws. Ovipositor short, the lobes narrowly oval and thickly setose. 
Type: Cecid. a2341. 
A single female was reared August 22, 1912, from a jar con- 
taining oval, yellowish blister galls on Oakesia sessilifolia collected 
by Miss Cora H. Clarke at Magnolia, Mass. It is possible that 
this insect was not an inhabitant of this gall. The generic refer- 
ence is also provisional. 
Schizomyia speciosa sp. noy. 
Female: Length 2mm. Antenne as long as the body, thickly haired, reddish 
brown, the segments distally with yellowish hairs, these producing an indistinct 
yellowish annulation; 14 segments, the fifth With a length about five times its diam- 
eter, the 12th with a length one-half greater than its diameter, the 13th with a length 
equal its diameter, the 14th disk-like. Palpi; first segment irregular, the second 
with a length about three times its diameter, the third with a length four times its 
diameter, somewhat dilated, the fourth one-half longer than the third and dilated. 
Mesonotum yellowish brown, the submedian lines thickly clothed with long, yel- 
lowish hairs. Scutellum and postscutellum yellowish. Abdomen sparsely haired, 
dark brown. Wing membrane thickly clothed with dark scales, almost subhyaline, 
there being a distinct spot near the tip of the third vein, one at the apex of the fifth 
and another along its posterior fork. Halteres dark brown, the distal portion of 
the stem yellowish, the apical half of the club white. Coxz yellowish brown. 
Legs mostly dark brown, the anterior and middle femora narrowly annulate in the 
middle with yellowish, the posterior femora with the basal half white; the bases of 
the tibize, the first tarsal segment and the distal half of the second, third and fourth 
and the basal portion of the fifth white. The bands on the posterior tarsi yellowish 
and broader, there being on the third and fourth tarsal segments only a narrow, 
brown annulation near the basal third. Claws moderately stout, evenly curved, 
simple, the pulvilli rudimentary. Ovipositor when extended probably as lorfg as 
the body, the aciculate part narrowly chitinized ventrally and approaching the 
condition found in Asphondylia; the ventral plate well developed. 
Type: Cecid. 1507. 
The striking midge described above was received from Mrs: 
A. T. Slosson and labeled Franconia, N. H. It is allied to S. rivine 
Felt from which it may be easily separated by its somewhat larger 
