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Asphondylia enceliae Felt 

 1912 Felt, E. P. N. Y. Ent. Soc. Jour., 20:152 



Several midges were reared February 23 and 25, 1911 from leaf 

 bud gaUs onEncelia californica collected by P. H. Tim- 

 berlake in the Puente hills, Whittier, Cal. The species runs in otir 

 key to A. ilicoides Felt from which it is easily separated by 

 the relatively much longer and narrower wings. 



Asphondylia ilicoides Felt 



1907 Felt, E. P. New Species of Cecidomyiidae II, p. 15-16. 



1908 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124:296-97, 377 



The small, oval, green bud galls on Ilicoides mucronata 

 made by this form are about 5 mm long, 3 in diameter, each in- 

 habited by several larvae and were taken at Old Forge, N. Y., June 

 20, 1907, several adults being obtained the latter part of the month. 

 The species appears to be quite subject to attacks by parasites. 



Gall. An oval, green bud gall 5 mm long. 



Male. Length 3 m.m.. Antennae nearly as long as the body, 

 sparsely short haired, dark brown, the basal segment pale at the 

 base; 14 segm.ents, the third with a length fuUy three times its 

 diameter, slightly swollen at the base. Palpi pale yellowish, the 

 first segment very short, stout, subquadrate, the second rather long, 

 stout, with a length ftilly three times its diameter, the third a little 

 longer than the second, somewhat constricted at the base, tapering, 

 subacute. Mesonotum brown dusted with pruinose, the submedian 

 lines sparsely clothed with gray setae and a lateral row of setae in 

 front of the wing insertion ; pleurae concolorous with the mesonotum. 

 Scutellum concolorous with the mesonotum, thickly clothed with 

 long, gray setae. Abdomen dark brown dorsally, sparsely clothed 

 with gray setae which are apparently longer posteriorly; ventrally 

 the abdom.en is yellowish red, rather thickly clothed with short, 

 shining, gray hairs. Wings hyaline, costa dark brown; halteres pale 

 basally, fuscous subapically, slightly so apically; coxae and the basal 

 two-thirds of the femora luteous, the latter shading to a very dark 

 brown apically; tibiae and tarsi black, the anterior legs similarly 

 colored; the midlegs have the femora quite a little darker at the base; 

 claws stout, strongly curved, the pul villi as long as the claws. Geni- 

 talia; dorsal plate short, stout, deeply and narrowly incised, the 

 lobes broadly rounded. 



Female. Length a little less than 3 mm. Antennae nearly as 

 long as the body, sparsely haired, dark brown; 14 segments, the third 

 with a length fully five times its diameter. Colorational characters 

 about as in the opposite sex, except that the abdomen is more thickly 

 clothed with gray hairs, giving it a gray appearance. Ovipositor 

 nearly as long as the body, otherwise nearly as in the male. Type 

 Cecid. ai548. 



