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Larva. Length 2.5 m. M. Moderately stout, yellowish orange, the breastbone 

 short, very broad, the long, narrowly triangular lateral teeth separated by a distance 

 greater than their length. Shaft obsolescent. Skin coarsely shagreened. Posterior extre- 

 mity broadly and irregularly rounded. 



Type Cecid. A 3100 N. Y. State Museum. 



Ptocontarinia matteiana KlEFF. & Cec. 



1906, Kieffer, J. J. and Cecconi, G., Marcellia 5:135-36. 



A number of midges and some parasites, all rather badly broken, are 

 referable with very little question to this species. The data on the label is as 

 follows: Mangifera indica L. Semarang, May, 1914, DvL., Bull. Jard. Bot. 

 Buitenzorg, Sér. 2, XV, Gall. No. 461, Fig. 214. There is a brief description 

 of the gall and an illustration of its structural details in this latter publication. 



