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uniform fuscous brown ; claws strongly curved, the pulvilli longer 

 ihan the claws. Ovipositor nearly the length of the abdomen, the 

 terminal lobes slender, with a length nearly four times the width. 

 Type Cecid, 213. 



Fig. 19 Gall of Dasyneura parthenocissi (natural size, original) 



Dasyneura parthenocissi Stebb. 



This species produces the rather common turgid midrib swelling 

 (plate 2, figure 13) on the Virginia creeper and has been noticed by 

 the author in detail in the Journal of the New York Entomological 

 Society, 21 :2i6-i7, 1913. 



