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Adults were reared in some 1o days. The larvae undergo their 
transformations in the soil, many of them apparently emerging 
through one hole. The insects seem to breed throughout the fall. 
This species is best known on account of its injuring the pods and 
young twigs, though it appears capable of materially damaging the 
foliage. The following unpublished notes kindly placed at our 
disposal by Doctor Howard of the bureau of entomology, probably 
refer to this species. In June 1897 Mr Pergande found on the under 
side of catalpa leaves a number of pale greenish, whitish or yellowish 
Itonid larvae producing a slight abrasion on the surface. Most of 
the affected leaves showed peculiar, circular, brownish spots sur- 
rounded by yellowish green rings. These observations were repeated 
the following season and convinced Mr Pergande that the spots were 
caused by the larvae. He states that the very minute eggs are 
loosely laid upon the foliage and drop easily. They are elongate- 
oval, pale yellowish and highly polished. The final transformations, 
he states, must occur in the soil. 
Male. Length 1.3 mm. Antennae about twice as long as the 
body, thickly haired, fuscous, basally fuscous yellowish; fourteen 
segments, the fifth with stems having a length two and one-half 
and three and one-half times their diameters; terminal segment, 
distal enlargement cylindric, with a length five times its diameter, 
apically a long, slender, fingerlike appendage. Palpi; the first seg- 
ment short, stout, irregular, subquadrate, the second about as long, 
more slender, the third one-half longer than the second, slender, 
the fourth a little shorter than the third. Mesonotum fuscous 
yellowish, the submedian lines yellowish; scutellum and postscu- 
tellum yellowish; abdomen light yellow; wings hyaline, costa pale 
yellowish; halteres yellowish. Legs a light fuscous yellowish; claws 
long, slender, evenly curved, the pulvilli nearly as long as the claws. 
Genitalia; basal clasp segment short, stout, roundly truncate dis- 
tally; terminal clasp segment rather short, stout, tapering. Other 
structures indistinct in preparation. 
Described from specimens received from Washington. Taken 
August 16, 1880 and probably types. Cecid. ar8o4. 
Itonida tecomae Felt 
1906 Felt, E.P. N. Y. State Mus. Bul. 104, p. 127-30 (Bremia) 
1908 ————— N. Y. State Mus. Bul. 124, p. 414 (Cecidomyia) 
1918 ————— N.Y. State Mus. Bul. 200, p. 185 
The pale yellowish male was reared from yellowish larvae found 
upon the distorted, partially rolled leaves of trumpet vine, T ecoma 
radicans, at Albany, N. Y., in August 1905. The wing 1s shown 
in plate 16, figure 5. 
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