112 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



basally fuscous yellowish, the distal portion of femora, tibiae and 

 tarsi variably tinged with reddish, the latter probably abnormal, as 

 the specimen adhered to the glass side of the breeding cage. Claws 

 long, slender, evenly curved, the piil villi about one-third the length 

 of the claws. Genitalia; dorsal plate rather long, broad, deeply 

 and triangularly incised, the lobes diverging, obliquely rounded; 

 ventral plate broad at base, deeply and narrowly incised. Cecid. 

 ai434b. 



Schizomyia rivinae Felt 

 1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124:379 



The female described below was reared from a bud gall on blood- 

 berry, Rivina humilis, June 22, 1882 from specimens col- 

 lected by William Wittfeld, Georgiana, Fla. 



Gall. Globular, pubescent, green, the tips whitish and rose colored 

 (Pergande) . 



Larva. Reddish orange, paler toward the head and with yellowish 

 white spottings laterally; breastbone slender, brown; spiracles small, 

 black; on the penultimate segment posteriorly are two tubelike 

 cylindrical projections in addition to the spiracles; the last segment 

 short, round, and without appendages ; the body covered with pointed 

 granules, those along the sides directed backward (Pergande). 



Female. Length 1.5 mm. Antennae about as long as the body, 

 sparsely clothed with fine hairs, light brown; 14 segments, the third 

 with a length fully four times its diameter. Palpi; the first segment 

 short, stout, irregularly sub quadrate, the second fully twice the 

 length of the first, the third one-fourth longer than the second, more 

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

 Mesonotum light brown, the submedian lines sparsely haired. Scutel- 

 lum yellowish brown, postscutellum slightly darker. Abdomen light 

 brown, the ovipositor pale yellowish. Wings hyaline, costa dark 

 brown. Halteres pale yellowish, slightly fuscous subapically. Coxae 

 mostly pale yellowish, a narrow band near the middle on the an- 

 terior and mid femora, the basal two-thirds of the posterior femora, a 

 narrow apical band on the tibiae and broad apical bands on the 

 tarsal segments, pale yellowish, the other portions of the legs light 

 brown; claws long, slender, strongly curved at the base, the pulvilli 

 rudimentary. Ovipositor about as long as the abdomen. Type 

 Cecid. 943. 



Schizomyia speciosa Felt 

 1914 Felt, E. P. Psyche 20:112 



This striking midge, collected by Mrs A. T. Slosson at Franconia, 

 N.H., may be separated from S. rivinae Felt by its somewhat 

 larger size, the darker color of the abdomen, the more distinctly and 

 broadly white-banded posterior tarsi and the relatively longer 

 antennal segments. 



