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the fonner with a few sparse setae apically. Abdomen sparsely 

 clothed with pale yellowish hairs, a light yellowish brown, the basal 



Fig. 86 Rhopalomyia alticola; fifth antennal segment of male, 

 enlarged (original) 



segment very dark brown, the genitalia reddish brown. Wings 

 hyaline, costa dark brown; halteres yellowish basally, fuscous 

 apically, the distal portion of the stem reddish brown. Legs a 

 nearl}^ uniform fuscous reddish brown, the coxae and distal tarsal 

 segments darker; caws long, stout, evenly curved. Genitalia; 

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

 stout; dorsal plate short, broad, deeply and narrowly incised; ventral 

 plate broad, broadly and triangularly incised. 



Female. Length 2.5 mm. Antennae extending to the fourth 

 abdominal segment, sparsely haired, dark red, 16 segments; the 

 fifth with a stem one-fourth the length of 

 the basal enlargement; terminal segment 

 slightly prolonged, obtuse. Palpi un- 

 iarticulate, the segment long, stout. 

 Mesonotum brownish black, submedian 

 lines sparsely ornamented with yellowish 

 hairs. Scutellum brownish black, post- 

 scutellum dark brown ; pleurae reddish with 

 fuscous markings especially on the mar- 

 gins of the sclerites. Abdomen reddish 

 brown, very sparsely clothed with fine hairs, 



dark reddish ventrally. Ovipositor fuscous ^'-- ^7 Rhopalomyia 

 yellowish. Legs a variable fuscous yellow, alticola; fifth antennal 

 tarsi slightly darker, the tips of the coxae segment of female, en- 

 darker; claws rather long, stout, evenly /^^^^^ (original) 

 curved. Ovipositor probably about two- thirds the length of the 

 body, the terminal lobe long, broad, obtuse. Type Cecid. 768. 



