REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 1906 I51 
Bred from a uniform enlargement of the upper portions of solidago 
stems, the gall being 10 cm long by .7 cm in diameter and occurring 
usually just below the point where the branches arise. Taken at 
Staten Island April 2, 1907. Adults bred May 6. 
Type Cecid. ar4o8, N. Y. State Museum. 
Lasioptera humulicaulis n. sp. 
Male. Length 2 mm. Antennae extending to the second 
abdominal segment, sparsely haired, dark brown, basal segments 
fuscous yellowish, 21 segments; face sparsely clothed with whitish 
scales, eyes small, narrowly margined posteriorly with silvery 
white. Mesonotum dark brown, the submedian lines thickly 
clothed with long, golden yellow scales; laterally there is a narrow 
margin of yellowish and silvery white scales, the general surface 
rather thickly clothed with fine, yellowish scales. Scutellum dark 
‘brown with rather numerous yellowish setae apically, postscutellum 
pale orange. Abdomen dark brown with submedian rows of rather 
large, lunate, silvery white spots, the markings on the posterior 
margins of segments one to six, the seventh segment and genitalia 
yellowish orange. Halteres semitransparent basally, pale orange 
distally. Legs with coxae and basal portion of femora pale yel- 
lowish, the remainder dark brown. 
Female. Length 3 mm. Antennae extending to the second 
abdominal segment, thickly haired, dark brown, the basal segments 
yellowish, 25 segments. Color characters nearly as in the opposite 
cox 
Bred May 2, 1907 from a long stem gall on hop. This is a unt- 
form swelling some 50 cm in length, about 1 cm in diameter and 
with a hollow, blackened interior inhabited by numerous larvae. 
Taken by. Henry Bird at Rye, N. Y., April 17, 1907. 
Type Cecid. ar446, N. Y. State Museum. . 
Lasioptera lactucae n. sp. 
Female. Length 1.5 mm. Antennae hardly extending to the 
base of the abdomen, sparsely haired, dark brown, 19 segments. 
Mesonotum thickly clothed with bronzy scales. Scutellum yellowish 
with a few apical setae, postscutellum apparently dark brown. 
Abdomen dark brown or black, with submedian rows of lunate, 
silvery white marks on the posterior marginsYof the segments. 
