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Gall. Subhemispheric, brown, slightly nippled, 1.75 mm in 

 diameter. It is monothalam.ous, occurs on the under side of the 

 leaf and causes on its upper surface a slight, brownish elevation 

 encircled by yellowish orange. 



Larva. Length 2.25 mm, rather stout, bright lem.on yellow. 

 Head small; antennae short, stout. Breastbone broadly and 

 irregularly bidentate, the shaft narrow. Skin coarsely shagreened, 

 posterior extremity broadly rounded with submedian obtuse tubercles 

 and numerous short, stout, semitransparent spines. 



Male. Length 2 mm.. Antennae extending to the fifth. abdominal 

 segment, sparsely haired, fuscous yellowish; 14 segments, the fifth 

 with a length about three times its diameter; about 11 low circum.- 

 fili; terminal segment produced, with a length five times its diam.eter, 

 tapering. Palpi; first segment presumably stout, the second with a 

 length four times its diameter, the third a little longer, more slender, 

 the fourth one-half longer than the third. Mesonotum dark brown, 

 the submedian lines thickly haired. Scutellum. reddish brown, post- 

 scutellum fuscous yellowish. Abdomen dark brown, the incisures 

 and pleurae yellowish red, the segments sparsely haired posteriorly; 

 genitalia fuscous. Wings hyaline, costa dark brown; halteres yel- 

 lowish basally, pale orange apically, fuscous subapically. Coxae fus- 

 cous yellowish; femora and tibiae mostly fuscous yellowish; tarsi 

 dark brown; claws long, slender, strongly ciu-ved, pul villi shorter 

 than the claws. Genitalia; dorsal plate short, deeply and roundly 

 emarginate, the lobes broadly rounded. 



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

 inal segment, sparsely haired, fuscous yellowish; 14 segm.ents, the 

 fifth with a length fully four times its diameter, with four coarsely 

 anastomosing circum.fili; terminal segment slightly reduced, tapering, 

 narrowly rounded. Palpi; first segm_ent subquadrate, the second 

 one-half longer, slender, the third a little longer, m.ore slender than 

 the second, the fourth one-half longer than the third. Scutellum 

 deep red, postscutellum_ fuscous. Abdom.en reddish orange, the 

 rather small dorsal sclerites dark brown and sparsely margined with 

 yellowish hairs. Halteres yellowish basally, fuscous apically. Coxae 

 slaty brown. Ovipositor about two-thirds the length of the abdomen. 

 Type Cecid. ai902. 



Cincticomia americana Felt 

 1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124:380, 381 



This small, broad- winged form was reared in April 1908 from a 

 slight blisterlike swelling on the lateral veins of red oak, Quercus 

 rubra taken at Albany, N. Y., Novem.ber 12, 1907. 



Gall. The gall is a slight, circular, blister like swelling on the 

 lateral veins beneath and of very nearly the same color as the leaf. 



