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and the fourth one-half longer and more slender than the third; 

 face reddish brown, eyes black. Mesonotum dark brown, the 

 submedian lines indistinct. Scutellum reddish yellow, postscutelltini 

 reddish brown. Abdomen light reddish 

 brown, rather thickly clothed with pale 

 setae and slightly fuscous distally. 

 Wings hyaline, costa yellowish brown, 

 the third vein joining the margin well 

 beyond the apex; halteres yellowish 

 basally, semi-transparent apically. Legs 

 a nearly uniform dark brown; claws 

 (fig. 22) long, slender, evenly curved. Fig. 22 Metadiplosis spin- 

 simple, the pulvilli about one- third the. osa, claw (enlarged, original) 

 length of the claws. Genitalia; basal 



clasp segment short, stout, truncate and at each internal distal angle 

 a long, stout, chitinous spine; terminal clasp segment short, greatly 

 constricted near the middle, enormously swollen and recurved 

 apically; dorsal plate short, broad, deeply and rather narrowly 

 incised, the lobes narrowly rounded ; ventral plate slender, tapering, 

 subacute. Type Cecid. 573. 



EPIDIPLOSIS Felt 

 1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 406 



1910 Rubsaamen, E. H. Zeitsch. Wissenschaft. Insektenbiol., 15:285 



191 1 Felt, E. P. N. Y. Ent. Soc. Jour., 19:59 



This genus is erected for a species remarkable because of the 

 enormously produced, curved, setose-bearing spine on the basal 

 clasp segment, this peculiar organ being nearly as long as the ter- 

 minal clasp segment and strongly suggesting the genitalic modifica- 

 tion we find in Lobodiplosis. It is, however, readily separable from 

 this last named genus by the simple claws. 



Type and sole species, Epidiplosis sayi Felt, C. 429 



Epidiplosis sayi Felt 

 1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 406-7 

 This interesting form was taken July i, 1906 on a window at 

 Nassau, N. Y. 



Male. Length .6 mm. Antennae twice as long as the body- 

 sparsely haired, light brown, yellowish basally; fourteen segments- 

 the fifth with stems two and two and one-half times the diameter 

 respectively. Palpi; the first segment probably short, subquadrate, 

 the second long, stout, tapering at each extremity, the third two- 

 thirds the length of the preceding, narrowly oval, the fourth one- 

 half longer than the third, slender; face fuscous yellowish. Mesono- 

 tum fuscous brown, submedian lines narrow. Scutellum reddish 

 brown, postscutellum yellowish, basal and terminal abdominal seg- 

 ments yellowish orange, the third, fourth and fifth white, sparsely 



