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crassate, the second narrowly lanceolate, one-half longer; the third 

 a, little longer than the second, slender, the fourth a little longer than 

 the third. Mesonotum dark brown, the submedian lines thickly- 

 haired. Scutellum reddish brown, postscutellum fuscous yellowish. 

 Abdomen dark brown, the incisures and pleurae yellowish red, the 

 segments sparsely haired posteriorly; genitalia fuscous. Wings 

 hyaline, costa dark brown. Halteres yello^Xdsh basally, pale orange 

 apicaUy, fuscous subapically. Coxae fuscous yellowish; femora and 

 tibiae mostly fuscous yellowish; tarsi dark brown; claws long, rather 

 stout, strongly curved, the pul villi shorter than the claws. Genitalia; 

 dorsal plate short, broad, deeply and narrowly emarginate, the lobes 

 broadly rounded. 



Female. Length 2 mm. Antennae extending to the fourth abdom- 

 inal segment, sparsely haired, fuscous yellowish, yellowish basally; 

 14 segments, the fifth with a length three and one-half times its 

 diameter; subapically a few scattering setae; irregular, high, un- 

 usually thick, irregularly anastomosing circumfili near the basal 

 third and apicaUy (figure 33); terminal segment somewhat reduced. 



Fig- 33 Cincticornia simpla. 

 segments of female, enlarged (original) 



Fifth (a) and distal (b antennal 



with a length three times its diameter, the apical fourth constricted, 

 narrowly rounded; claws stout, irregularly curved, the pul villi 

 shorter than the claws. Ovipositor about two-thirds the length of 

 the abdomen. Otherwise nearly as in the male. Type Cecid. aiySpd, 

 ai942, ai947. 



Cincticornia podagrae Felt 

 1909 Felt, E. P. Econ. Ent. Jour., 2:291 



This species was reared in small numbers in April 1908 from a 

 narrow, fusiform vein swelling on the leaves of the yellow-barked 

 or black oak, Quercus velutina, collected by Miss Cora H. 

 Clarke at Magnolia, Mass., in October 1908. 



