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scales, the’ venter sparsely clothed with silvery white scales. Legs 
a nearly uniform black. 
Bred from several oval, yellowish, marginal, blister galls on 
solidago. 
Type Cecid. a1430, N. Y. State Museum. 
Choristoneura hamata n. sp. 
Male. Length 3 mm. Antennae extending to the base of the 
abdomen, sparsely haired, dark brown, 18 segments; face fuscous 
with a few whitish scales; head rather thickly clothed with pale 
yellowish scales posteriorly. Mesonotum dark brown, sparsely 
margined laterally and anteriorly with yellowish hairs, submedian 
lines rather thickly clothed with the same. Scutellum dark brown 
with a few whitish scales, postscutellum dark brown. Abdomen 
dark brown or black with submedian rows of conspicuous lunate, 
silvery white spots. Genitalia, fuscous yellowish. Halteres pale 
yellowish. Legs a variable brown, the tarsi dark brown. 
Female. Length 2.75 mm. Antennae extending to the base of 
the abdomen, sparsely haired, dark brown, 20 to 22 segments. 
Other color characters about as in the opposite sex. 
Bred April 28 and May 18, 1907 from an oval gall on the stem 
of an unknown weed taken at Albany, N. Y. This enlargement 
somewhat resembles that made by Lasiopteradesmodi1i 
Felt. 
Type Cecid. ar458, N. Y. State Museum. 
Choristoneura hibisci n. sp. 
Male. Length 1.75 mm. Antennae hardly extending to the 
base of the abdomen, thickly haired, dark brown, 16 segments; 
face fuscous with a conspicuous patch of silvery white scales, the 
black eyes narrowly margined posteriorly with silvery white. 
Mesonotum dark brown, narrowly and irregularly margined 
laterally with golden yellow scales, the submedian lines rather 
thickly clothed with golden yellow hairs. Scutellum dark brown, 
sparsely ornamented with silvery white scales and with a few long 
setae apically, postscutellum dark brown. Abdomen dark brown or 
black, with submedian rows of somewhat irregular, sublunate, 
silvery white spots. Halteres pale salmon basally, whitish trans- 
parent apically. Legs mostly dark brown, the articulations annu- 
late with white, the bands broader on the posterior tarsi. 
