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Exuviae. Length 5 mm, the cephaUc horns stout, tapering, 

 strongly serrate internally; the dorsiim. of the third or fourth 

 abdominal segment with a uniform row of heavy, chitinous spines 

 on the distal third, the basal half with an irregular double row of 

 smaller spines. Terminal segment posteriorly with about 12 heavy, 

 chitinous spines, the median ones slender and irregularly placed, 

 the latero-ventral ones larger and apparently grouped, the basal 

 half very scatteringly ornamented with shorter, stout spines, there 

 being only three or four in the sub median areas. 



Male. Length 4 mm. Antennae a little longer than the body, 

 sparsely haired, yellowish brown, basal segments fuscous orange; 

 14 segments, the third with a length four times its diameter. Palpi; 

 the first segment long, dilated apically, with a length about twice its 

 diameter, the second slender, nearly three times the length of the 

 preceding; face fuscous orange, eyes large, black. Mesonotum olive 

 brown, the submedian lines rather thickly haired. Scutellum fuscous 

 yellowish brown with numerous coarse setae apically, postscutellum 

 fuscous yellowish. Abdomen rather thickly clothed with silvery 

 hairs, dark brown, the venter thickly clothed with grayish hairs; 

 genitalia fuscous yellowish. Wings hyaline, costa dark brown; 

 halteres reddish brown. Coxae and base of femora fuscous yellowish, 

 the distal portion of femora and tibiae darker, tarsi dark brown or 

 black, except the second segment of the posterior legs, which is 

 mostly fuscous yellowish; claws long, stout, strongly curved, the 

 pulvilli as long as the claws. Genitalia; dorsal plate short, broad, 

 deeply and roundly emarginate, the lobes broadly rounded. 



Female. Length 4 mm. Antennae about as long as the body, 

 sparsely haired, yellowish brown, the basal segments fuscous orange; 

 14 segments, the third with a length six times its diameter. Palpi; 

 the first segment stout, broad, with a length about two and one- 

 half times its diameter, the second slender, with a length more than 

 twice the preceding. There is in some specimens of this sex a rudi- 

 mentary third segment. Ovipositor nearly as long as the body. 

 Other characters as in the male. Type Cecid. aiyiS. 



Asphondylia eupatorii Felt 

 191 1 Felt, E. P. Econ. Ent. Jour., 4:546-47 



The midge was reared in September 1907 by Mr L. H. Weld of 

 Illinois from a green, fleshy, stem gall on white snake root, 

 Eupatorium urticaefolium collected at Medina, N. Y. 

 This species is closely related to A. helianthiflorae Felt, 

 though it may be readily separated therefrom by the coloration of 

 the legs, the tapering apical segment of the palpi and the marked 

 difference in the male genitalia. 



