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median lines indistinct.) Scutellum and postscutellum reddish 
brown.!; Abdomen rather thickly clothed with yellowish hairs, a 
variable reddish brown. Wings hyaline, costa light straw: halteres 
yellowish transparent, slightly fuscous apically. Coxae, femora and 
tibiae a variable dark*%brown and yellowish, the segments slightly 
fuscous apically; claws slender, strongly curved, the pulvilli nearly 
as long as the claws. Genitalia; basal clasp segment greatly swollen, 
ovate, with a length only one-fourth greater than the diameter: 
terminal clasp segment as long, stout, curved; dorsal plate short, 
broadly emarginate, the lobes broadly rounded; ventral plate deeply 
and triangularly emarginate, the lobes divergent, tapering; style 
short, tapering, narrowly rounded. Type Cecid. 126s. 
Itonida albotarsa Felt 
1907 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bul. 110, p. 132-33; separate, p. 36 
(Cecidomyia) 
The yellowish male was taken on hickory, Carya, at Albany, 
N. Y., June 19, 1906. 
Male. Length 2 mm. Antennae longer than the body, sparsely 
haired, light brown; fourteen segments, the fifth with stems one 
and one-half and two times their diameters, respectively; terminal 
segment produced, the distal enlargement constricted at the basal 
third, with a length over twice its diameter and apically with a 
short, conical appendage. Palpi; first segment subquadrate, the 
second with a length three times its diameter, the third a little 
longer, more slender, the fourth one-third longer than the third. 
Mesonotum yellowish, sparsely clothed with black hairs. Abdomen 
yellowish, lighter distally, the segments margined posteriorly with 
long, black hairs. Wing (pl. 1s, fig. 8) with costa dark brown; 
halteres yellowish, slightly fuscous apically. Legs thickly clothed 
with fuscous hairs, yellowish basally; tibiae black, the tarsi fuscous, 
except the white second of the anterior and the second to fifth of 
the posterior. Genitalia (pl. ro, fig. 2); dorsal plate short, deeply 
and triangularly emarginate, the lobes broadly rounded; ventral 
plate long, deeply and triangularly emarginate, the lobes triangular; 
style short, narrowly rounded. Type Cecid. 330. 
Itonida taxodii Felt 
1911 Felt, E. P. Econ. Ent. Jour., 4:556-57 
1918 ————— N.Y. State Mus. Bul. 200, p. 19 
This insect, characterized earlier, was reared in February and 
March 1883, by the late Theodore Pergande from a conical, globular 
or elongated deformation of the leaves of bald cypress, Tax'o- 
dium distichum, collected by H. G. Hubbard in Florida. 
Specimens were kindly placed at our disposal for study through the 
courtesy of the United States National Museum. 
