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somewhat fuscous yellowish with sparse apical setae, postscutellum 
and abdomen pale orange, the latter slightly tinged dorsally with 
fuscous and rather sparsely clothed with fine, whitish hairs, genitalia 
pale orange. Wings (pl. 15, fig. 5) hyaline, costa light brown; 
halteres yellowish transparent. Legs nearly uniform pale straw, 
tarsi somewhat darker; claws rather short, stout, gently curved. 
Genitalia; dorsal plate broad, short, deeply and narrowly incised, 
the lobes approximate, subtruncate, the latero-posterior angles 
produced, broadly rounded, the distal margin with several long, 
stout setae; ventral plate very long, slender, narrowly rounded; 
style stout, long, narrowly rounded. 
Female. Length 1.5 mm. Antennae nearly as long as the body, 
sparsely haired, fuscous straw; fourteen segments, the fifth with a 
stem one-third the length of the cylindric basal enlargement, which 
latter has a length about three times its diameter; terminal segment 
produced, with a length four times its diameter and apically with a 
long, fingerlike process. Palpi; first segment irregular, second nar- 
rowly oval, the third one-half longer, more slender, the fourth a 
little longer and more slender than the third; face fuscous yellowish. 
Mesonotum yellowish brown, the submedian lines sparsely -haired. 
Scutellum and postscutellum pale yellowish. Abdomen reddish 
orange, sparsely setose. Costa dark brown. Halteres pale yellowish, 
slightly fuscous subapically. Coxae and femora basally yellowish 
transparent, the distal portion of femora, tibiae and tarsi mostly a 
light fuscous; claws stout, evenly curved, the pulvilli about half the 
length of the claws. Ovipositor about two-thirds the length of the 
abdomen, the terminal lobes narrowly elliptical, with a length fully 
four times the width. Type Cecid. 267. 
Reared August 16, t910 from a jar containing numerous choke- 
cherries deformed by Contarinia virginianiae Felt, 
Parallelodiplosis caryae Felt 
1907 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bul. 110, p. 141-42; separate p. 45 
(Cecidomyia) 
1908 ——— N. Y,. State, Mus) Bul. 124) p.. 411) (Clinodiplosis) 
1909 ————— Econ. Ent. Jour., 2:293 (Clinodiplosis) 
TOlSs NPE tase Mitisi bul. 200,195 a 
This insect was first taken on hickory at Albany, June 19, 1906, 
females being captured the 22d. The correctness of our associating 
this species with hickory is shown by its having been reared from a 
hickory leaf gall by the late Dr M. T. Thompson and subsequently 
in this office. The adults undoubtedly fly in early June and 
apparently they occur in at least two kinds of galls, possibly as 
inquilines. 
Gall. The species was reared by Doctor Thompson from a 
deformity which he characterizes as the most curious gall he ever 
found. It appears first as a brownish blistered area on the leaf with 
