REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST IQI2 37, 
as the first, subquadrate, the third more slender, one-half longer 
and the fourth one-quarter longer than the third; face fuscous yel- 
lowish, eyes fuscous. Mesonotum reddish brown, submedian lines 
indistinct. Scutellum and postscutellum a fuscous reddish yellow. 
Abdomen fuscous yellow, membrane and pleurae lighter ; ovipositor 

Fig. 21 Palpus of Lestremia sylvestris, enlarged. (Original) 
slightly fuscous. Wings hyaline. Halteres yellowish basally, fus- 
cous apically. Legs dark fuscous yellowish, the first tarsal segment 
as long as the following segments; claws apparently finely dentate. 
Ovipositor short, terminal lobes broadly subquadrate, slightly con- 
stricted basally, thickly setose. Type Cecid. 743. 
Lestremia kansensis Felt 
TOOSm Melt, Ewe. IN: Ys State Mus. Bal. 124) p: 311 
This species was taken in Douglas county, Kansas, by Mr E. S. 
Tucker in May. 
Female. Length 1.5 mm. Antennae extending to the third ab- 
dominal segment, thickly haired, light brown, yellowish basally; 11 
segments, the fifth with a stem one-fourth the length of the basal 
enlargement, which latter has a length a little over twice its 
diameter; terminal segment with a length about four times its 
diameter, distal part slender, irregularly fusiform, apically with a 
fingerlike process. Palpi; the first segment short, stout, narrowly 
oval, second segment slender, with a length one-half greater than 
the first, the third one-half longer than the second and more slender, 
the fourth about twice the length of the third, slender. Mesonotum 
