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triangularly incised, the lobes well separated, truncate, groups 
of long setae at the angles; ventral plate long, broad, the sides tap- 
ering slightly to a broadly and roundly emarginate apex, the lobes 
short, narrowly rounded. MHarpes indistinct; style long, stout, 
tapering to an obtuse, slightly expanded apex. Type Cecid. ar7ar. 
Ttonida putrida Felt 
1912 Felt, E. P. N. Y. Ent. Soc. Jour., 20:246-—47 
LOLS (Nee State Vitiss) Rule 200s. 40 
This species was reared from decaying birch wood inhabited by 
numerous larvae of Bolitophila cinerea Meign. collected 
at Albany. 
Itenida reflexa Felt 
1913 Felt, E. P. Psyche, 20:146 —47 
The male was received from C. W. Johnson of the Boston Society 
of Natural History. It was labeled “I. B. 16, 1906, Hampton, N.H.., 
». A. Shaw, 1143.” It is easily separated from the’ related 
I. putrida Felt by the dark-brown abdomen and the somewhat 
longer antennal stems. 
Itonida nixoni Felt 
1908 Felt, E.P. N. Y. State Mus. Bul. 124, p. 414 (Cecidomyia) 
This pale yellowish male was taken July 6, 1906 on New Jersey 
tea, Ceanothus american us, at Albany, Nive 
Male. Length 1.6mm. Antennae one-half longer than the body, 
thickly haired, light brown, yellowish basally; fourteen segments, 
the fifth with stems two and two and one-half times their diameters, 
respectively; terminal segment, distal enlargement cylindric, with a 
length three times its diameter, apically a slender, fingerlike process. 
Palpi; first segment quadrate, with a length one-half greater than 
its diameter, the second twice the length of the first, slender, the 
third a little longer than the second, slender, the fourth a little 
longer and more slender than the third. Face fuscous yellowish. 
Mesonotum dark brown, the submedian lines broad, yellow, pos- 
terior median area yellowish. Scutellum fuscous yellowish, post- 
scutellum yellowish. Abdomen: pale yellowish orange, the distal 
segments narrowly and faintly margined posteriorly with fuscous, 
the latter continued slightly on the median line; genitalia slightly 
fuscous. Wings hyaline, costa light brown; halteres yellowish 
transparent. Legs a nearly uniform fuscous straw, tarsi slightly 
darker; claws long, slender, evenly curved, the pulvilli nearly as long 
as the claws. Genitalia; dorsal plate broad, deeply and roundly 
emarginate, the lobes broadly rounded, the angles slightly produced; 
ventral plate long, broad, nearly truncate apically; style long, stout, 
narrowly rounded. Type Cecid. sro. 
