REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST I913 TO3 



Rhabdophaga normaniana Felt 



1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124. p. 354 



This species was reared May 17, 1906 from a small apical gall 

 on willow, Salix, received from Mr Norman Criddle, Aweme, 

 Manitoba. 



Gall. A small, oval terminal bud gall resembling an aborted 

 Rhabdophaga brassicoides gall. 



Female. Length 3.5 mm. Antennae extending to the second ab- 

 dominal segment, dark brown : 18 segments, the fifth with a length 

 about twice its diameter ; terminal segment produced, with a length 

 two and one-half times its diameter. Palpi ; first segment subtri- 

 angular, second rectangular, with a length three times its width, the 

 third a little longer, more slender, the fourth longer and more 

 slender than the third. Mesonotum shining black, sparsely haired. 

 Scutellum and postscutellum shining black. Abdomen sparsely 

 haired, dark reddish brown. Wings hyaline, costa fuscous yellow- 

 ish. Halteres whitish fuscous subapically. Legs mostly fuscous 

 yellowish, the distal tarsal segments darker ; claws stout, strongly 

 curved, the pulvilli as long as the claws. Ovipositor about half the 

 length of the body, the lobes with a length two and one-half times 

 the width, narrowly rounded. 



Male. Length 3 mm. Antennae nearly as long as the body, dark 

 brown ; 22 segments, the fifth with a stem one-half the length of 

 the basal enlargement, which latter has a length one-half greater 

 than its diameter ; terminal segment reduced, narrowly oval. Palpi ; 

 first segment with a length twice its diameter, the second a little 

 longer, more slender, the third longer and more slender than the 

 second, the fourth as long as the third, slender. Genitalia ; basal 

 clasp segment long, terminal clasp segment long, stout ; dorsal plate 

 deeply and triangularly incised : ventral plate deeply and roundly 

 emarginate. Harpes long, stout, truncate, with a large, quadrate 

 tooth. Type Cecid. 1246. 



Rhabdophaga caulicola Felt 



1909 Felt, E. P. Econ. Ent. Jour., 2 1290 



This reddish brown species was reared in April 1908 from slender 

 willow twigs similar to those producing Sackenomyia pack- 

 a r d i Felt and collected by Mr L. H. Weld at Evanston, 111. 

 Eurytoma and Decatoma species were reared, presumably from this 

 midge. 



Gall. This species was reared from long, slender, hardly swollen 

 willow, Salix. twigs similar to those producing Sackenomyia 

 p a c k a r d i . 



Larva. Length 3 mm, dark orange, moderately stout. Head 

 small ; antennae short ; breastbone bidentate, the anterior lateral 



