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with Stems each three times their diameters; terminal segment, distal 

 node long, subcylindric, a spindle-shaped process apically. Palpi; 

 the first segment subquadrate, the second with a length four times 

 its diameter, the third slender, three-fourths the length of the second, 

 the fourth a little longer and stouter than the third. Face yellowish. 

 Thorax pale yellowish. Abdomen pale yellowish, reddish tinted 

 basally and apically. Wings pale yellowish, costa brownish yellow. 

 Legs pale yellowish white, the tips of the tarsi slightly duslcy; claws 

 stout, strongly curved near the middle, irregularly swollen at the 

 distal third. Genitalia; dorsal plate broad, deeply and triangularly 

 incised, the lobes diverging; ventral plate broad, tapering, broadly 

 and roundly emarginate, the lobes narrow, slightly recurved; style 

 long, stout, broadly rounded. Type Cecid. 361. 



Itonida fragariae Felt 



1907 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. no, p. 133; separate, p. 37 

 (Cecidomyia) 



1908 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 413 (Cecidomyia) 



This pale yellowish male was taken June iS, 1906 on strawberry 



at Albany, N. Y. 



Male. Length .75 mm. Antennae twice as long as the body, 

 thickly haired, light yellowish brown; fourteen segments, the fifth 

 with stems three times their diameters; terminal segment, distal 

 enlargement produced, cylindric, with a spindle-shaped appendage. 

 Palpi; the first segment rectangular, the second one-half longer, 

 narrowly rounded, the third a little longer, more slender, the fourth 

 longer and broader than the third. Mesonotum dark carmine, sub- 

 median lines yellowish. Scutelltmi tinged with carmine, post- 

 scutelltun yellowish. Abdomen pale yellowish with a median dorsal 

 orange spot on the second and third segments. Wings hyaline, 

 long, narrow, costa pale ^^ellowish. Halteres yellowish transparent. 

 Legs pale straw; distal tarsal segments light brown; claws slender, 

 strongly curved. Genitalia; dorsal plate broad, deeply and broadly 

 emarginate, the lobes obliquely truncate; ventral plate broad, long, 

 broadly and roundly emarginate, the lobes diverging, slender; style 

 long, slender, narrowly rounded. Type Cecid. 328. 



Itonida emarginata Felt 



1907 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. no, p. 134; separate, p. 38 

 (Cecidomyia) 



1908 N. Y. .State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 413 (Cecidomyia) 



This pale reddish male was taken May 17, 1906 at Albany, N. Y., 

 and June 30th at Nassau, N. Y. 



Male. Length .75 mm. Antennae longer than the body, thickly 

 haired, dark brown; fourteen segm.ents, the fifth with stems two and 

 one-half and three times their diameters; terminal segment, distal 

 enlargement prolonged, subcylindric, apically with a short, sub- 



