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with fuscous hairs, submedian lines yellowish. Scutellum reddish 
brown, postscutellum dark silvery. Abdomen dark brown, darker 
on the basal segments. The incisures, pleurae and the distal seg- 
ments pale orange. Genitalia fuscous yellowish; coxae and base 
of femora yellowish. Other portions of the legs nearly uniform 
dark brown. 
Bred from a variegated blister gall on Solidago rugosa at 
Albany, N.Y. July 15, 1906. 
Type Cecid. 650b, N.Y. State Museum. 
Lasioptera cinerea n. sp. 
Male. Lengthi.5 mm. Antennae extending to the base of the 
abdomen, sparsely haired, dark brown, 16 or 17 segments; head 
dark brown. Mesonotum and scutellum dark brown, the latter 
silvery white apically, postscutellum very dark brown. Abdomen _ 
dark brown, rather thickly clothed dorsally with silvery white scales. 
Legs mostly dark brown, lighter ventrally. Tarsi darker than fe- 
mora and tibiae. 
Taken on Ilex verticillata at Albany, N.Y. May 21, 1906. 
Type Cecid. 73, N.Y. State Museum. 
Lasioptera viburni n. sp. 
Male. Lengthi1mm. Antennae extending to the 2d abdominal 
segment, sparsely haired, dark brown, at least 18 and probably a 
larger number of segments; eyes margined posteriorly with silvery 
white scales. Mesonotum dark brown, margined laterally with yel- 
lowish, anteriorly with a few sparse silvery white hairs, submedian 
lines yellowish. Scutellum and postscutellum nearly uniformly 
fuscous orange. Abdomen yellowish orange with irregular fuscous 
markings on the rst, 2d, 3d and 4th abdominal segments; these 
marks are narrowly divided in the middle and slightly prolonged 
sublaterally, giving somewhat the appearance of a double row of 
subquadrate fuscous spots. Coxae, femora and tibiae pale yellow- 
ish straw; tarsi nearly uniformly dark brown. 
Taken on maple-leaved arrowwood at Albany, N.Y. June 10, 1906. 
Type Cecid. 186, N.Y. State Museum. 
Lasioptera consobrina n. sp. 
Male. Length 1 mm. Antennae hardly extending to the base 
of the abdomen, sparsely haired, brown, 18 segments; face yellow- 
ish brown with patches of whitish hairs; eyes margined: posteriorly 
