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with a stem about one- fourth the length of the basal enlargement. 

 Palpi; the second segment long, narrowly oval, the third a little 

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

 than the preceding; face dark brown, sparsely clothed with whitish 

 hairs. Mesonotum dark brown, Scutellum yellowish, postscutellum 

 and abdomen nearly uniform dark brown. Wings (pi. 6, fig. 2) 

 hyaline, costa dark brown; halteres yellowish or orange yellow. 

 Legs a nearly uniform dark brown ; claws rather long, strongly and 

 evenly curved. Genitalia ; basal clasp segment stout, with a con- 

 spicuous rounded lobe internally at the basal third; terminal clasp 

 segment stout. Dorsal plate short, very broad, apparently divided, 

 the lobes widely separated at the base, broadly rounded; ventral 

 plate broad, stout, apparently suborbicular. Harpes stout, sub- 

 triangular, apically with a long, subquadrate, chitinous process and 

 several minor ones. Type Cecid. 194. 



Dasyneura yuccae Felt 



1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 343 



This species, loaned for study through the courtesy of the United 

 States National Museum, was reared September 12, 1893 from the 

 pods of Yucca angustifolia. 



Male. Length i mm. Antennae a little longer than the body, 

 thickly haired, light brown; 14 segments, the fifth with a stem about 

 one-half the length of the basal enlargement; terminal segment 

 narrowly oval. Palpi ; the first long, slender, with a length about 

 three times its diameter, the second about as long as the first, nar- 

 rowly oval, the third as long as the second, slightly more slender, 

 the fourth one-half longer than the third, more slender. Mesonotum 

 dark reddish brown. Scutellum and postscutellum pale yellowish. 

 Abdomen yellowish brown. Wings hyaline, costa dark brown. 

 Halteres yellowish transparent. Legs a variable fuscous yellowish, 

 the femora distally, tibiae and tarsi dark brown ; claws very long, 

 slender, strongly curved, the pulvilli a little shorter than the claws. 

 Genitalia; basal clasp segment long, slender; terminal clasp seg- 

 ment long, slender ; dorsal plate long, deeply and triangularly incised ; 

 ventral plate long, broad, broadly rounded. Harpes short, stout, 

 roundly truncate. Type Cecid. 1053. 



Dasyneura ampelophila Felt 

 1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 343 



This fuscous yellowish and dark brown species was taken at 

 Albany, N. Y., July 13, 1906 on Virginia creeper, Psedera 

 quinquefolia. 



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

 sparsely haired, dark brown, the basal segments yellowish, the fifth 



