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somewhat fuscous yellowish with sparse apical setae, postscutellum 

 and abdomen pale orange, the latter slightly tinged dorsally with 

 fuscous and rather sparsely clothed with fine, whitish hairs, genitalia 

 pale orange. Wings (pi. 15, fig. 5) hyaline, costa light brown; 

 halteres yellowish transparent. Legs nearly uniform pale straw, 

 tarsi somewhat darker; claws rather short, stout, gently curved. 

 Genitalia; dorsal plate broad, short, deeply and narrowly incised, 

 the lobes approximate, subtruncate, the latero-posterior angles 

 produced, broadly rounded, the distal margin with several long, 

 stout setae; ventral plate very long, slender, narrowly rounded; 

 style stout, long, narrowly rounded. 



Female. Length 1.5 mm. Antennae nearly as long as the body, 

 sparsely haired, fuscous straw; fourteen segments, the fifth with a 

 stem one-third the length of the cylindric basal enlargement, which 

 latter has a length about three times its diameter; terminal segment 

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

 long, fingerlike process. Palpi; first segment irregular, second nar- 

 rowly oval, the third one-half longer, more slender, the fourth a 

 little longer and more slender than the third; face fuscous yellowish. 

 Mesonotum yellowish brown, the submedian lines sparsely haired. 

 Scutelltmi and postscutellum pale yellowish. Abdomen reddish 

 orange, sparsely setose. Costa dark bro^vn. Halteres pale yellowish, 

 slightly fuscous subapically. Coxae and femora basally yellowish 

 transparent, the distal portion of femora, tibiae and tarsi mostly a 

 light fuscous; claws stout, evenly curved, the pulvilli about half the 

 length of the claws. Ovipositor about two-thirds the length of the 

 abdomen, the terminal lobes narrowly elliptical, with a length fully 

 four times the width. Type Cecid. 267. 



Reared August 16, 19 10 from a jar containing numerous choke- 

 cherries defonned by Contarinia Virginia niae Felt. 



Parallelodiplosis caryae Felt 



1907 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. no, p. 141-42; separate p. 45 

 (Cecidomyia) 



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



1909 Econ. Ent. Jour., 2:293 (Clinodiplosis) 



1918 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 200, p. 47 



This insect was first taken on hickory at Albany, June ig, 1906, 

 females being captured the 2 2d. The correctness of our associating 

 this species with hickory is shown by its having been reared from a 

 hickory leaf gall by the late Dr M. T. Thompson and subsequently 

 in this office. The adults undoubtedly fly in early June and 

 apparently they occur in at least two kinds of galls, possibly as 

 inquilines. 



Gall. The species was reared by Doctor Thompson from a 

 deformity which he characterizes as the most curious gall he ever 

 found. It appears first as a brownish blistered area on the leaf with 



