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Scutellum fuscous yellowish, postscutellum yellowish. Abdomen 

 fuscous yellowish, sparsely clothed with fine hairs, genitalia darker. 

 Wings hyaline, costa light brown; hal teres whitish transparent. 

 Legs a nearly uniform, fuscous yellowish; claws long, slender, strongly 

 curved, the pulvilli a httle longer than the claws. Genitalia; basal 

 clasp segment short, stout; terminal clasp segment long, stout; 

 dorsal plate short, broad, apparently broadly rounded; ventral plate 

 longer, tapering, broadly truncate. Harpes long, stout, excurved, 

 narrowly rounded. 



Female. Length 3 mm. Antennae extending to the sixth ab- 

 dominal segment, sparsely haired, pale yellowish; 18 segments, 

 the fifth with the basal enlargement having 

 a length about twice its diameter ; terminal 

 segment prolonged, slightly constricted near 

 the distal third, narrowly rounded. Palpi ; a 

 single stout, long, irregularly fusiform seg- 

 ment bearing a few coarse setae; face 

 fuscous yellowish. Mesonotum dark 

 brown, the submedian lines indistinct. 

 Scutellum reddish brown, postscutellum 

 pale yellowish, fuscous distally. Abdomen 

 pale yellowish with the dorsal sclerites pjg. 73 Rhopalomyia 

 distinctly fuscous, almost dark brown, bulbula; fifth antennal 

 ovipositor pale orange or yellowish, segment of female, enlarged 

 probably nearly as long as the body, the (original) 

 terminal lobes long, broad, slightly con- 

 stricted at the base, broadly rounded. Described from alcoholic 

 specimens. Type Cecid. 11 15. 



Rhopalomyia pini Felt 



1907 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. no, p. 120 (separate, p. 24) 



1908 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 365 



This species was taken at Albany, N. Y., June 4, 1906 flying to 

 a white pine. 



Male. Length 2.5 mm. Antennae probably nearly as long as 

 the body, thickly white haired, light yellowish; 18 segments, the 

 fifth with a stem three-fourths the length of the basal enlargement; 

 terminal segment produced, suboval. Palpi: composed of one long, 

 subquadrate segment, slightly expanded distally. Face dark brown. 

 Mesonotum reddish brown, the submedian lines with slaty hairs. 

 Scutellum yellowish brown, postscutellum reddish brown. Ab- 

 domen yellowish brown, thickly clothed with slaty hairs. Wings 

 hyaline, costa dark brown. Halteres very long, slender, yellowish 

 transparent basally, fuscous apicaUy. Legs slaty brown; claws 

 slender, uniformly curved. Genitalia; basal clasp segment long, 

 stout; terminal clasp segment large, rounded, swollen at the distal 

 third; dorsal plate broad, deeply and triangularly emarginate; 

 ventral plate broadly rounded. (Plate 18, figure 2.) Harpes stout, 

 broadly rounded. Type Cecid. 116. 



