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basal clasp segment long, slender, roundly truncate; terminal clasp 
segment short, swollen basally ; dorsal plate long, broad, deeply 
and triangularly emarginate; ventral plate long, narrow, deeply 
and broadly emarginate; style stout, nearly uniform. Type Cecid. 
ar165d. 

Fig 76 Fifth aN eae 
antennal —seg- Ye 
ment of 
Sr d.c htay = 
MEU ANE Vat EAS: 
enlarged. (Ori- 
gina?) Fig. 77 Male genitalia of Brachy- 
neura vitis, enlarged. (Origina!) 

Brachyneura eupatorii Felt 
r908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bul. 124, p. 317 
1909 ——————._ Ent. Soc. Ont. 39th Rep’t, p. 44 
The female was reared September 14, 1907, possibly from a gall 
on thoroughwort, Eupatorium perfoliatum, taken at 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. The swelling on the stem was about 6 mm 
in diameter and contained 6 yellow larvae occupying cocoons massed 
in the center of the cell. 
Female. Length 1.2 mm. Antennae shorter than the body, 
densely clothed with scales, presumably dark brown, the basal seg- 
ments creamy white; 12 segments, the fifth with a length about 
twice its diameter; terminal segment slightly produced, with a 
length three times its diameter and apically with a short, stout, 
knoblike appendage. Palpi; the first segment short, stout, irreg- 
ular, the second subrectangular, with a length about three times 
its diameter, slightly expanded distally, the third as long as the 
second, slender, tapering at both extremities. Face creamy white, 
eyes large, black, with fine, white points. Mesonotum dark fuscous, 
the submedian fines narrowly whitish. Scutellum yellowish, clothed 
with silvery hairs. Abdomen black, except where the whitish 
ground color appears; membrane and pleurae pale yellowish, ovi- 
positor whitish apically. Wings black, costa black, thickly clothed 
with scales. Halteres black, whitish at the base, the pedicel un- 
usually short and curved. Coxae pale yellowish; femora and tibiae 
