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Parallelodiplosis montana Felt 

 1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 412 (CHnodiplosis) 

 This fuscous brown male was taken July 20, 1906 sweeping grasses 

 and sedges at Newport, N. Y. 



Male. Length 2 mm. Antennae probably longer than the body, 

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

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

 Palpi; the first segment subquadrate, second with a length three 

 times its width, tapering distally, the third a Httle longer than the 

 second, more slender, the fourth longer and more slender than the 

 third. Mesonotum dark brown, submedian lines indistinct, scu- 

 tellum yellowish brown; postscutellum and abdomen fuscous brown, 

 the latter thickly setose; genitalia yellowish. Wings hyahne, costa 

 yellowish brown; halteres pale yellowish. Legs mostly dark brown; 

 claws long, slender, evenly auved, the pulvilli about half the length 

 of the claws. Genitalia; dorsal plate short, deeply and narrowly 

 incised, the lobes obhquely truncate; ventral plate long, truncate; 

 style long, tapering. Type Cecid. 631. 



Parallelodiplosis cinctipes Felt 

 1914 Felt, E. P. Psyche 20:113 



This midge was reared by Mr C. A. Frost, Framingham, Mass. 

 in May 1908 from dead twigs of Rhus vcrnix. 



Parallelodiplosis cattleyae Moll. 

 1 891 Riley, C. V. & Howard, L. O. Insect Life 3:22 (Diplosis) 

 1902 Molliaid, Marin. Marcellia, i : 165-71 (Cecidomyia) 

 1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 412 (CHnodiplosis) 

 191 1 Theobald, F. V. Rep't Econ. Zool., p. 105-7 (Cecidomyia) 

 1918 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 200, p. 29 



These reddish midges were reared May 20, 1S90 from roots of 

 Cattleya gigas received from A. P. Morse, South Natick, 

 Mass., by the bureau of entomology, Washington, D. C. 



Gall. There is no description of the deformity. The larvae 

 appear to simply occur in the roots. 



Larva. Yellow or pale orange with a brown breastbone. 



Exuviae. Length 2.5 mm, whitish transparent. Antennal cases 

 extending to the second thoracic segment, wing cases to the second 

 abdominal segment; thoracic horns long, tapering. Dorsum of 

 abdominal segments i to 7 with a short, transverse, irregularly 

 double row of rather stout, triangular spines. 



Male. Length 2 mm. Antennae probably nearly as long as the 

 body, sparsely haired, black; fourteen segments, the fifth with stems 

 having a length one and one-half and two and one-half times their 

 diameters respectively. Palpi; the first segment probably quadrate, 

 the second broadly oval, with a length one-half greater than its 



