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silvery gray, the posterior tarsi silvery gray, the 2 distal segments 

 black, the anterior and mid tarsi darker ; claws unidentate, pulvilli 

 shorter than the claws. Ovipositor short, the terminal lobes 

 broadly oval. Type Cecid. ai349. 



Brachyneura americana Felt 



1907 Felt, E. P. New Species of Cecidomyiidae II, p. 5 



1908 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 286 



The single female representing this species was taken August 2, 

 1906 on the office window in Albany, N. Y., and was presumably 

 reared from material brought into the office. 



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

 abdomen, thickly clothed with narrow scales, black ; 12 segments, 

 the fifth subcylindric, the enlargement, with a length nearly three 

 times its diameter ; terminal segment produced, 

 slender, distally tapering to a narrowly rounded 

 apex. Palpi ; the first segment short, stout, some- 

 what rounded, the second more than twice the 

 length of the first, more slender, the third a little 

 longer and more slender than the second. Mesono- 

 tum very dark brown, sparsely ornamented with 

 yellowish hairs. Scutellum black with yellowish 

 hairs basally, postscutellum and abdomen dark 

 brownish black. Wings subhyaline, the membrane 

 thickly clothed with narrow fuscous scales, costa 

 black. Halteres fuscous yellowish basally, black 

 apically. Legs mostly a uniform fuscous or black, 

 the second and third segments of the posterior tarsi 

 fuscous yellowish ; claws long, unidentate, the pul- 

 villi as long as the claws. Ovipositor short, the 

 lobes short, narrowly rounded. Type Cecid. 734. 



Fig. 78 Fifth 

 antennal seg- 

 ment of Brac- 

 hyneura 

 americana, 

 enlarged. (Ori- 

 ginal) 





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Fig. 79 Ovipositor of Brachyneura americana, enlarged. 



(Original) 



