REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST I918 I4I 



emarginate, the lobes broadly rounded; ventral plate short, broad 

 rounded; style slender. Type Cecid. ai655b. 



Lestodiplosis hicoriae Felt 



1907 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. no, p. 137-38; separate, p. 41 

 (Cecidomyia) 



1908 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 409 



This pale yellowish male was taken June 14, 1906 on hickory, 

 C a r y a , at Nassau, N. Y. 



Male. Length .75 mm. Antennae fully twice as long as the 

 body, thickly clothed with fine hairs, light brown; fourteen seg- 

 ments, the fifth with stems, each having a length three and one-half 

 times their diameter; distal node obpyriform. Palpi; the first seg- 

 ment short, subquadrate, second a little longer, broadly oval, the 

 third a little longer, narrowly oval, the fourth more slender and 

 longer than the third; face dark fuscous. Mesonottim dark brown. 

 Scutellum reddish brown, postscutellum darker. Abdomen pale yel- 

 lowish with dark brown mesially on the basal segment. Wings 

 hyaline, costa pale brown; halteres whitish transparent. Legs a 

 nearly uniform pale reddish straw color, tarsi slightly darker; claws 

 slender, evenly curved. Genitalia; basal clasp segment long, slender; 

 terminal clasp segment swollen basally, tapering ; dorsal plate broad, 

 deeply and narrowly incised, the lobes rather narrowly rounded; 

 ventral plate broad, broadly rounded; style long. Type Cecid. 261a. 



Lestodiplosis scrophulariae Felt 



1907 Felt, E. P. New Species of Cecidomyiidae II, p. 22 (Cecidomyia) 



1908 ■ N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 303 (Cecidomyia) p. 409 



1918 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 200, p. 185 



This pale yellowish carmine male was reared August 8, 1907 from 

 distorted flower buds of Scrophularia marylandica 

 taken at West Nyack, N. Y. 



Male. Length 1.5 mm. Antennae one-fourth longer than the 

 body, thickly haired, light brown; fotirteen segments, the fifth with 

 stems having a length one and one-half and three and one-half 

 times their diameters respectively, the distal enlargement some- 

 what produced; terminal segment, distal enlargement prolonged, 

 obtusely rounded. Palpi; the first segment short, stout, irregular, 

 the second one-half longer, narrowly oval, the third about as long 

 as the second, and the fourth a little longer than the third. Mesono- 

 tum dark brown, the submedian lines sparsely haired. Scutellum 

 yellowish brown, postscutellimi fuscous. Abdomen pale yellowish 

 carmine, the basal segments apparently with a variable fuscous spot, 

 genitalia fuscous yellowish. Wings hyaline, costa light brown; 

 halteres yellowish transparent. Legs a variable fuscous straw, the 

 tarsi nearly black; claws rather long, slender, evenly curved, the 

 pulvilli a little shorter than the claws. Genitalia; basal and terminal 



