170 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



wJth a long, fingerlike appendage apically and a broad band of 

 slender, strongly curved setae. Palpi yellowish, the first segment 

 rather long, stout, the second one-half longer, stout, the third one- 

 fourth longer than the second, slender, the fourth a little longer 

 than the third, slender. Mesonotiun shining dark brown, the 

 broad, yellowish submedian lines and posterior median area yellowish, 

 the former sparsely haired. Scutellum pale orange, postscutellum 

 yellowish. Abdomen yellowish orange, the segments margined 

 posteriorly with brown chitin and near the middle a rudimentary- 

 band of the same, the latter with submedian interruptions, the sixth 

 segment mostly brown. Wings hyaline, costa dark brown. Halteres 

 pale orange, slightly fuscous subapically. Coxae and femora mostly 

 yellowish, tibiae and tarsi a variable dark brown, the latter some- 

 what lighter; claws long, slender, irregularly curved, the pulvilli 

 rudimentary. Ovipositor one-half the length of the abdomen, stout, 

 the terminal lobes slender, with a length six times their width. 

 Type Cecid. 331. 



Parallelodiplosis coryli Felt 



1907 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. no, p. 142; separate, p. 46 

 (Cecidomyia) 



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



This pale orange male was taken June 11, 1906 on hazel, C o r y - 

 lus americanus,at Albany, N. Y. 



Male. Length 1.5 mm. Antennae a little longer than the body, 

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

 one and one-half and two times their diameters, respectively; ter- 

 minal segment, distal enlargement greatly prolonged, subcylindric 

 api^cally a spindle-sbaped, thickly haired appendage. Palpi, the 

 first segment irregularly subquadrate, the second twice the length 

 of the first, slightly swollen at the basal third, the third about as 

 long as the second, more slender, the fourth a little longer than the 

 third and much more slender; face sooty yellow. Mesonotum dark 

 brown, dark reddish laterally, submedian lines yellowish, ornamented 

 with fine setae. Scutellimi reddish basally, slightly fuscous apically, 

 sparsely setose, postscutellimi dark yellowish. Abdomen pale 

 yellowish orange, sparsely clothed with fine, yellowish hairs, each 

 segment narrowly margined with fuscous posteriorly and with short, 

 dark, transverse lines on each side just behind the middle. Wings 

 hyaline, costa dark brown; halteres whitish transparent basally, 

 yellowish apically. Coxae and basal portion of femora pale straw 

 yellow, the other parts of the legs nearly uniform sooty yellowish 

 or brownish; claws slender, evenly curved. Genitalia; dorsal plate 

 broad, deeply and narrowly incised, the lobes roundly truncate, the 

 lateral angles prolonged, narrowly rounded; ventral plate long, 

 slender, broadly rounded; style long, slender, narrowly rounded. 

 Type Cecid. 216. 



