SUMMER NUMBER 5 
A NEW AND REMARKABLE FIG MIDGE 
By E. P. FELT, State Entomologist, Albany, N. Y. 
The remarkable form described below differs from all other 
gall midges known to us by the forty-one antennal segments in 
at least one sex, presumably in both, and in addition possesses 
structural peculiarities which necessitate the erection of a new 
enus. Be ; 
g Ficiomyia n. g. 
The genus runs in our Key to the Chilian Scheueria Kieff, 
from which it is easily separated by the much greater number 
of antennal segments, the occurrence of distinct stems on the 
flagellate antennal segments of both sexes, the absence of marked 
reticulations in the circumfila and the claws being distinctly 
longer than the pulvilli. The male genitalia present striking 
peculiarities, evidenced in part by the subapical insertion of 
the terminal clasp segment. 
Type F. perarticulata n. sp. 
Ficiomyia perarticulata n. sp. 
The insects were reared from the fruits of Ficus aurea by 
G. F. Moznette of the Federal Bureau of Entomology, stationed 
at Miami, Fla., and forwarded under date of February 9, 1922. 
Unfortunately, these specimens were somewhat broken in transit 
and as a consequence, the descriptions given below are not com- 
plete in certain details. The larger reddish females were much 
more abundant in the sending than the few smaller, yellowish 
males. 
Male:—Length 2 mm. Antennae probably one-fourth longer 
than the body, sparsely haired, light fuscous yellowish, probably 
forty-one segments, the fifth with a stem about three-fourths 
the length of the sub-cylindric basal enlargement, which latter 
has a length almost twice its diameter, basally a sparse whorl 
of moderately stout setae, sub-apically a somewhat thicker whorl 
of long, bent setae; low circumfila occur at the basal third and 
apically; terminal segments missing; palpi probably uniartic- 
ulate; mesonotum fuscous yellowish; scutellum and postscutel- 
lum yellowish; abdomen fuscous yellowish; wings hyaline, rather 
thickly clothed with fuscous scales; sub-costa uniting with the 
margin at the basal third, the nearly straight third vein at the 
apex of the wing, the fifth at the basal fourth, its branch at 
the basal third; halteres pale yellowish; coxae fuscous yellowish; 
legs mostly dark straw; the distal tarsal segments pale straw; 
claws long, rather stout, unidentate; the pulvilli about one-half 
the length of the claws (Unguial characters probably true of all 
