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ment of the circumfila in the sexes and the simple claws indicate an 
affinity with Hormomyia. Type and sole species, M.buxi Lab. 
Monarthropalpus buxi Lab. 
Box Leaf Midge 
1873 Laboulbene, Alexandre. Soc. Ent. Fr. Ann., ser. 5, 3:32 Tab. 9 
1913 Chaine, J. Sci. Nat., Zool., Ann. (Paris), IX ser., 17:269 —359 
1913 — C. R. Hebdom. Soc. de Biol., 74: 156-58 
1913. Felt, E. P. Tree Talk, v. 1, no.2, p. 18 
1915 — N. Y. State Mus. Bul. 180, p. 42 -46 
1918 ———— N. Y. State Mus. Bul. 200, p. 158 
This rather large, yellowish orange midge was found by Prof. 
A. E. Stene in May 1g10 infesting a box hedge, Buxus sem- 



Fig. 53 Monarthropal- 
pus buxi, box leaves show- 
ing galls (author’s illustra- 
tion) 
pervirens, at Newport, R I. Galls received May 25th pro- 
duced an abundance of midges. It occurs in a number of localities 
