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mentary lateral bands at the posterior third. Genitalia yellowish. 

 Wings hyaline, costa fuscous yellowish. Halteres whitish basally, 

 pale yellowish apically. Coxae and femora basally pale yellowish, 

 remainder of the legs fuscous yellowish; claws long, slightly curved, 

 the pulvilli rudimentary. Genitalia; dorsal plate short, broad, 

 deeply and narrowly emarginate, the lobes broadly and roundly 

 emarginate, the lateral angles slightly produced, setose; ventral 

 plate long, slender, tapering slightly, narrowly rounded; style long, 

 stout, narrowly rounded. 



Female. Length 1.25 mm. Antennae nearly as long as the body, 

 sparsely haired, dark brown, yellowish basally; fourteen segments, 

 the fifth with a stem one-third the length of the cylindric basal 

 enlargement, which latter has a length three times its diameter, 

 and is slightly constricted near the basal third; terminal segment 

 produced, cylindric, with a length four times its diameter and apically 

 with a short, fingerlike projection. Palpi; long, yellowish, the first 

 segment short, subquadrate, the second with a length three times 

 its diameter, the third a little longer, more slender, the fourth one- 

 fourth longer than the third, more slender. Mesonotum dark 

 reddish brown, the submedian lines yellowish, sparsely haired. 

 Scutellum yellowish brown, postscutellum yellowish. Abdomen 

 sparsely haired, yellowish, the extremities reddish brown ; the segments 

 margined posteriorly ,with a narrow fuscous sclerite and with a 

 rudimentary one near the middle laterally. Wings hyaline, costa 

 dark brown. Halteres whitish basally, light fuscous apically. Coxae 

 and femora basally yellowish, the distal portion of femora, tibiae and 

 tarsi mostly dark brown; claws slender, slightly curved, the pulvilli 

 rudimentary; ovipositor short, yellowish, the lobes extremely slender, 

 with a length seven times their width. Type Cecid. a 183 8. 



Parallelodiplosis acernea Felt 



1907 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. no, p. 143; separate, p. 46-47 

 (Cecidomyia) 



1908 N. Y. State Mus. Bui, 124, p. 411 (Clinodiplosis) 



1915 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 175, pi. 2, fig. 12 



191 8 • N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 200, p. 150 



This pale orange male was taken June 14, 1906 on red maple, 

 Acer rubrum,at Nassau, N. Y. 



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

 body, rather thickly haired, light brown, yellowish basally; fourteen 

 slightly trinodose segments, the fifth with stems two and two and 

 one-half times their diameters, respectively; terminal segment, 

 distal enlargement greatly produced, subcylindric and with an apical 

 spindle-shaped appendage about three-fourths as long. Palpi; the 

 first segment subrectangular, the second nearly twice the length of 

 the first, rounded at the extremities, the third and_ fourth, each 

 successively a little longer, more slender than the third; face pale 

 yellowish, eyes large, black. Mesonotum dark brown, submedian 

 lines pale yellowish, sparsely ornamented with fine setae. Scutellum 



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