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Paralielodiplosis montana Felt 
1908 Felt, E.P. N. Y. State Mus. Bul. 124, p. 412 (Clinodiplosis) 
This fuscous brown male was taken July 20, 1906 Sweeping grasses 
and sedges at Newport, N. Y. 
Male. Length 2mm. Antennae probably longer than the body, 
thickly haired, dark brown; fourteen segments, the fifth with stems 
one and one-half and three times their diameters, respectively. 
Palpi; the first segment subquadrate, second with a length three 
times its width, tapering distally, the third a little longer than the 
second, more slender, the fourth longer and more slender than the 
third. Mesonotum dark brown, submedian lines indistinct, scu- 
tellum yellowish brown; postscutellum and abdomen fuscous brown, 
the latter thickly setose; genitalia yellowish. Wings hyaline, costa 
yellowish brown; halteres pale yellowish. Legs mostly dark brown; 
claws long, slender, evenly curved, the pulvilli about half the length 
of the claws. Genitalia; dorsal plate short, deeply and narrowly 
incised, the lobes obliquely truncate; ventral plate long, truncate; 
style long, taperingy Type Cecid: 62\1; 
Paralielodiplosis cinctizes Felt 
1914 Felt, E.P. Psyche 20:113 
This midge was reared by Mr C. A. Frost, Framingham, Mass. 
in May 1908 from dead twigs of Rhus vernix. 
Parallelodiplosis cattleyae Moll. 
1891 Riley, C. V. & Howard, L.O. Insect Life 3:22 (Diplosis) 
1902 Molliard, Marin. Marcellia, 1:165-71 (Cecidomyia) 
1908 Felt, E.P. N.Y. State Mus. Bul. 124, p. 412 (Clinodiplosis) 
1911 Theobald, F. V. Rep’t Econ. Zool., p. 105-7 (Cecidomyia) 
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These reddish midges were reared May 20, 1890 from roots of 
Cattleya gigas received from A. P. Morse, South Natick, 
Mass., by the bureau of entomology, Washington, D. C. 
Gall. There is no description of the deformity. The larvae 
appear to simply occur in the roots. 
Larva. Yellow or pale orange with a brown breastbone. 
Exuviae. Length 2.5 mm, whitish transparent. Antennal cases 
extending to the second thoracic segment, wing cases to the second 
abdominal segment; thoracic horns long, tapering. Dorsum of 
abdominal segments 1 to 7 with a short, transverse, irregularly 
double row of rather stout, triangular spines. 
Male. Length 2 mm. Antennae probably nearly as long as the 
body, sparsely haired, black; fourteen segments, the fifth with stems 
having a length one and one-half and two and one-half times their 
diameters respectively. Palpi; the first segment probably quadrate, 
the second broadly oval, with a length one-half greater than its 
