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the 1st segment thickly clothed with snow-white hairs, the 2d and 
3d and 4th segments broadly margined posteriorly with the same, 
the bands being wider on the median line; the 5th narrowly mar- 
gined with white, the 7th brown; the 8th yellowish, the latter two 
margined posteriorly with long white bristles. Ventral surface dark 
brown with a broad median silvery white stripe. Genitalia dark 
brown, tipped with silvery white; coxae yellowish transparent; 
femora and tibiae dark brown banded at the extremities with 
yellowish white. 
Female. Length 2 mm. Coloration practically as in the other 
sex. Ovipositor when extended probably ? the length of the ab- 
domen. 
- Bred May 31, 1906, from stem gall on tick trefoil (Meibomia 
cuspidatum or M. canadensis), taken at Albany, N.Y. 
Type Cecid. 88, N.Y. State Museum. 
Lasioptera corni n. sp. 
Female. Length .g mm. Antennae 4 the length of the body 
sparsely haired, brownish black, 18 segments. Mesonotum brown- 
ish yellow, yellowish posteriorly. Submedian lines broad, narrowly 
separated. The median line shorter. Scutellum yellow, postscu- 
tellum yellowish. Abdomen dark brown with the 1st segment 
golden, the others yellow banded apically. Ovipositor yellowish. 
Coxae whitish transparent; femora pale; tibiae pale, brownish 
above toward the apex; tarsi brown. 
Bred from an oval ocellate leaf gallon Cornus paniculata 
taken at Albany, N.Y. July 16, 1906. 
Type Cecid. 764a, ar151, N.Y. State Museum. 
Lasioptera hamata n. sp. 
Female. Length 1.5 mm. Antennae extending to the base of 
the abdomen, sparsely haired, dark brown, 18 segments; lower por- 
tion_of face and base of antennae sparsely ornamented with white 
hairs; eyes margined posteriorly with thesame. Mesonotum brown- 
ish black; scutellum and postscutellum dark brown. Abdomen 
dark brown with the 3d, 4th and 5th abdominal segments margined 
posteriorly with whitish scales. Terminal segments pale yellowish. 
Coxae dark yellowish brown; femora pale yellowish; tibiae and 
tarsi slightly variable, dark brown. ; 
Taken on Solidago at Nassau, N.Y. June 14, 1906. 
Type Cecid. 280, N.Y. State Museum. 
