REPORT OF Tllli STATE ENTOATOr.OCIST I906 I57 



Female. Length 2 mm. Antennae extending to the base of 

 the abdomen, 24 segments. Color characters nearly as in the 

 opposite sex. 



Bred by Dr M. T. Thompson of Clark University, Worcester, 

 Mass. from an oval stem gall on Eupatorium perfoli- 

 a t u m. 



Type Cecid. iioi, N. Y. State Museum. 



Dasyneura canadensis n. sp. 



Male. Length 2 mm. Antennae nearly as long as the body, 

 sparsely haired, dark brown, a few of the terminal segments red- 

 dish, the basal segments and mouth parts fuscous yellowish, 17 

 segments; eyes broadly margined posteriorly with fine, yellowish 

 hairs. Mesonotum reddish brown, sometimes darker, submedian 

 lines narrow, rather thickly clothed with fine hairs. Scutellum 

 pale yellowish red with a few coarse setae apically, postscutellum 

 and abdomen pale salmon, the latter sparsely clothed with fine 

 hairs; genitalia fuscous. Halteres and basal portion of femora 

 pale yellowish, distal portion of femora and tibiae fuscous yellowish, 

 the tarsi a variable fuscous brown. 



Female. Length 2 mm. Antennae extending to the third 

 abdominal egment, sparsely haired, dark brown, slightly reddish 

 distally, the basal segments fuscous yellowish, 13 segments. Other 

 characters about as in the opposite sex. 



Bred May i, 1907 from Cecidomyid larvae infesting the seeds of 

 the white spruce, Abies alba. Taken by Dr James Fletcher in 

 the vicinity of Ottawa, Canada in April 1907. 



Type Cecid. ai42 8, N. Y. State Museum. 



Dasyneura flavotibialis n. sp. 



Male. Length 1.25 mm. Antennae nearly as long as the body, 

 thickly clothed with whorls of long hairs, fuscous yellowish, 11 

 segments; face fuscous yellowish. Mesonotum a fuscous greenish 

 yellow, the submedian lines rather thickly clothed with long, 

 fuscous hairs. Scutellum a light reddish yellow with long setae 

 apically, postscutellum yellowish. Abdomen dark ^^ellowish red, 

 thickly clothed with dark brown scales and with the segments 

 margined posteriorly with long, dark brown setae, the seventh 

 segment and genitalia fuscous yellowish, venter A^ellowish red, 

 rather thickly clothed with dark brown scales, except for a narrow 



