REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 1918 I4I 
emarginate, the lobes broadly rounded; ventral plate short, broad 
rounded; style slender. Type Cecid. ar6ssb. 
Lestodiplosis hicoriae Felt 
1907 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bul. 110, p. 137-38; separate, p. 41 
(Cecidomyia) 
1905)———— N. Y. State’Mus. Bul. 124, p. 400 
This pale yellowish male was taken June 14, 1906 on hickory, 
Carya, at Nassau, N. Y. 
Male. Length .75 mm. Antennae fully twice as long as the 
body, thickly clothed with fine hairs, light brown; fourteen seg- 
ments, the fifth with stems, each having a length three and one-half 
times their diameter; distal node obpyriform. Palpi; the first seg- 
ment short, subquadrate, second a little longer, broadly oval, the 
third a little longer, narrowly oval, the fourth more slender and 
longer than the third; face dark fuscous. Mesonotum dark brown. 
Scutellum reddish brown, postscutellum darker. Abdomen pale yel- 
lowish with dark brown mesially on the basal segment. Wings 
hyaline, costa pale brown; halteres whitish transparent. Legs a 
nearly uniform pale reddish straw color, tarsi slightly darker; claws 
slender, evenly curved. Genitalia; basal clasp segment long, slender; 
terminal clasp segment swollen basally, tapering; dorsal plate broad, 
deeply and narrowly incised, the lobes rather narrowly rounded; 
ventral plate broad, broadly rounded; style long. Type Cecid. 261a. 
Lestodiplosis scrophulariae [Felt 
1907. Felt, E. P. New Species of Cecidomyiidae II, p. 22 (Cecidomyia) 
1908 —————__ N.Y. State Mus. Bul. 124, p. 303 (Cecidomyia) p. 409 
1918 ————— _ N.Y. State Mus. Bul. 200, p. 185 
This pale yellowish carmine male was reared August 8, 1907 from 
distorted flower buds of Scrophularia marylandica 
taken at West Nyack, N. Y. 
Male. Length 1.5 mm. Antennae one-fourth longer than the 
body, thickly haired, light brown; fourteen segments, the fifth with 
stems having a length one and one-half and three and one-half 
times their diameters respectively, the distal enlargement some- 
what produced; terminal segment, distal enlargement prolonged, 
obtusely rounded. Palpi; the first segment short, stout, irregular, 
the second one-half longer, narrowly oval, the third about as long 
as the second, and the fourth a little longer than the third. Mesono- 
tum dark brown, the submedian lines sparsely haired. Scutellum 
yellowish brown, postscutellum fuscous. Abdomen pale yellowish 
carmine, the basal segments apparently with a variable fuscous spot, 
genitalia fuscous yellowish. Wings hyaline, costa, light brown; 
halteres yellowish transparent. Legs a variable fuscous straw, the 
tarsi nearly black; claws rather long, slender, evenly curved, the 
pulvilli a little shorter than the claws. Genitalia; basal and terminal 
