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REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST I918 I7I 



Parallelodiplosis triangularis Felt 

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

 The light-brown males of this species were taken July 2 and 6, 

 1906, at Nassau, N. Y. 



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

 thickly haired, light brown, fuscous basally; fourteen segments, the 

 fifth with stems each two and one-half times their diameters; ter- 

 minal segment, distal enlargement produced, subcylindric and with 

 a spindle-shaped appendage. Palpi; the first segment subquadrate, 

 the second long, rather broad,' the third a little shorter, more slender, 

 the fourth one-fourth longer than the second, more slender. Face 

 fuscous. Mesonotum dark brown, submedian lines pale yellow. 

 Scutellum fuscous yellowish, postscutellum light brown. Abdomen 

 light brown; terminal segments yellowish, thickly haired; Wings 

 hyaline, costa light brown. Genitalia; dorsal plate broad, deeply 

 and triangularly incised, the lobes narrowly triangular; ventral plate 

 long, slender, truncate; style stout at the base, long, tapering, con- 

 stricted subapically. Type Cecid. 428. 



Parallelodiplosis subtruncata Felt 



1907 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. no, p. 140; separate, p. 44 

 (Cecidomyia) 



1908 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 412 (Clinodiplosis) 



This dark-red form was taken at Albany, N. Y., July 6, 1906 while 

 collecting on goldenrod or Solidago and aster. 



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

 thickly haired, dark brown, fuscous yellowish basally; fourteen 

 segments, the fifth with stems two and one-half and four times 

 their diameters; terminal segment, distal enlargement prolonged, 

 subcylindric, tapering to a spindle-shaped appendage. Palpi; the 

 first segment rather short, irregularly rectangular, the second more 

 than twice the length of the preceding, stout, tapering slightly 

 distally, the third as long as the second, more slender, subfusiform, 

 the fourth a little longer, more slender; face fuscous yellowish. 

 Mesonotum dark brown, submedian lines yellow, uniting posteriorly 

 in a median yellowish area. Scutellum dark red, postscutellum 

 yellowish. Abdomen dark red, the segments margined posteriorly 

 with fuscous, sparsely clothed with pale setae. Wings hyaline, 

 costa light brown; halteres yellowish. Coxae and basal portion of 

 femora pale yellowish, remainder of femora, tibiae and basal segment 

 of tarsi fuscous brown, 3 distal segments yellowish, variably tinged 

 with carmine; claws rather stout, strongly curved. Genitalia (pi. 20, 

 fig. 7); dorsal plate short, broad, deeply, narrowly and roundly 

 emarginate, the lobes well separated, the sublateral margin obliquely 

 truncate, the submedian truncate; ventral plate narrow, long, 

 tapering, irregularly truncate; style long, stout, narrowly roimded. 

 Type Cecid. 506. 



