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and abdomen reddish. Wings subhyaline, variably spotted. The 

 whitish legs broadly banded with dark brown at the base and near 

 the middle of the tibiae, on the first and the base of the second 

 tarsal segments, on the apex of the second and the base of the third 

 tarsal segments and apically on the fifth. Genitalia; basal clasp 

 segment stout, long; terminal clasp segment slightly swollen basally, 

 stout; dorsal plate deeply and triangularly incised, the lobes nar- 

 rowly rounded; ventral plate broad, narrowly rounded; style stout. 



Female. Antennae pale yellowish, the two basal segments blackish. 

 Thorax dusky in the older specimens, reddish in the younger ones. 

 Scutellum and abdomen reddish, the latter with pale, ^Iky hair. 

 Legs pale reddish yellow; femora clothed with blackish hair which 

 gives them a dusky appearance; tibiae covered* with silvery white 

 hair, the base and a ring around the middle, black; tarsi silvery white, 

 first joint black, also the base of the tip of the second and third. 

 Wings pale buff with three more or less distinct dusky zigzag bands 

 across (Pergande notes) Type Cecid. 986. 



Lestodiplosis clematiflorae Felt 



1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 409 

 1918 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 200, p. 129 



This reddish male was reared August 28, 1907 from unopened 

 flowers of Virgins bower, Clematis virginiana, collected 

 at Kamer, N. Y. 



Male. Length i mm. Antennae one-fourth longer than the body, 

 sparsely haired, light brown; fourteen segments, the fifth with stems 

 three and one-half and three times their diameters, respectively; 

 distal enlargement subglobose, with a length one-fourth greater 

 than its diameter; terminal segment, distal enlargement with a length 

 three times its diameter, obtuse. Palpi; first segment quadrate, the 

 second with a length nearly three times its width, the third nearly 

 as long as the second, more slender, the fourth longer than the third, 

 more slender. Mesonotum slightly infuscated. Scutellum and post- 

 scutellum a little darker than the reddish pleurae. Wings hyaline, 

 costa reddish brown. Halteres, coxae and femora basally pale 

 yellowish, the distal portion of femora and tibiae brownish; tarsi 

 brown; claws long, slender, evenly curved, the pulvilli nearly as 

 long as the claws. Genitalia; basal clasp segment long; terminal 

 clasp segment long, slender; dorsal plate deeply and triangularly 

 incised, the lobes narrowly rounded; ventral plate long, narrowly 

 rounded; style long. Type Cecid. ai694b. 



Lestodiplosis carolinae Felt 



1907 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. no, p. 139; separate, p. 43 

 (Cecidomyia) 



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



1918 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 200, p. 192 



