170 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
with a long, fingerlike appendage apically and a broad band of 
slender, strongly curved setae. Palpi yellowish, the first segment 
rather long, stout, the second one-half longer, stout, the third one- 
fourth longer than the second, slender, the fourth a little longer 
than the third, slender. Mesonotum shining dark brown, the 
broad, yellowish submedian lines and posterior median area yellowish, 
the former sparsely haired. Scutellum pale orange, postscutellum 
yellowish. Abdomen yellowish orange, the segments margined 
posteriorly with brown chitin and near the middle a rudimentary 
band of the same, the latter with submedian interruptions, the sixth 
segment mostly brown. Wings hyaline, costa dark brown. Halteres 
pale orange, slightly fuscous subapically. Coxae and femora mostly 
yellowish, tibiae and tarsi a variable dark brown, the latter some- 
what lighter; claws long, slender, irregularly curved, the pulvilli 
rudimentary. Ovipositor one-half the length of the abdomen, stout, 
the terminal lobes slender, with a length six times their width. 
Type 'Cecids331- 
Paralielodiplosis coryli Felt 
1907 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bul. 110, p. 142; separate, p. 46 
(Cecidomyia) 
1908 ————— N. Y. State Mus. Bul. 124, p. 411 (Clinodiplosis) 
This pale orange male was taken June 11, 1906 on hazel, Cory- 
ins americanus) at Albany, IN: Y- 
Male. Length 1.5 mm. Antennae a little longer than the body, 
thickly haired, light brown; fourteen segments, the fifth with stems 
one and one-half and two times their diameters, respectively; ter- 
minal segment, distal enlargement greatly prolonged, subcylindric 
apically a spindle-shaped, thickly haired appendage. Palpi, the 
first segment irregularly subquadrate, the second twice the length 
of the first, slightly swollen at the basal third, the third about as 
long as the second, more slender, the fourth a little longer than the 
third and much more slender; face sooty yellow. Mesonotum dark 
brown, dark reddish laterally, submedian lines yellowish, ornamented 
with fine setae. Scutellum reddish basally, slightly fuscous apically, 
sparsely setose, postscutellum dark yellowish. Abdomen pale 
yellowish orange, sparsely clothed with fine, yellowish hairs, each 
segment narrowly margined with fuscous posteriorly and with short, 
dark, transverse lines on each side just behind the middle. Wings 
hyaline, costa dark brown; halteres whitish transparent basally, 
yellowish apically. Coxae and basal portion of femora pale straw 
yellow, the other parts of the legs nearly uniform sooty yellowish 
or brownish; claws slender, evenly curved. Genitalia; dorsal plate 
broad, deeply and narrowly incised, the lobes roundly truncate, the 
lateral angles prolonged, narrowly rounded; ventral plate long, 
slender, broadly rounded; style long, slender, narrowly rounded. 
Type Cecid. 216. 
