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light yellowish brown. Abdomen dark yellowish brown, the terminal 

 segment yellowish. Wings hyaline, costa light brown; halteres 

 yellowish transparent. Legs a pale yellowish straw, lighter distally; 

 claws long, slender, evenly curved, the pulvilli about two-thirds the 

 length of the claws,. Genitalia; dorsial plate short, deeply and tri- 

 angularly emarginate, the lobes diverging, obliquely truncate, the 

 lateral angles produced; ventral plate long, stout, deeply and roundly 

 emarginate, the lobes slender, parallel, narrowly rounded; style long, 

 slender, constricted near the distal sixth and seventh, narrowly 

 rounded. Type Cecid. 371. 



Itonida sanguinia Felt 

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

 This dull-red male was taken June 24, 1906 on fern at Nassau, 



N. Y. 



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

 thickly haired, light brown, yellowish basally; fourteen segments, 

 the fifth with stems each three and one-half times their diameters; 

 terminal segment, distal enlargement with a length one-half greater 

 than its diameter and a long, fingerlike process apically. Palpi; first 

 segment irregularly quadrate, the second with a length three times 

 its diameter, slender, the third a little longer, more slender, the 

 fourth a little shorter than the third, dilated. Face yellowish. 

 Mesonotum fuscous yellowish, the submedian lines yellowish, 

 sparsely haired. Scutellum fuscous yellow, sparsely setose apically, 

 postscutellum dark brown. Abdomen dull reddish basally, slightly 

 darker apically, sparsely clothed with fine, yellowish hairs. Wings 

 hyaline, costa dark brown; halteres yellowish basally, slightly fus- 

 cous apically. Legs fuscous yellowishi, the fore and mid tarsi darker, 

 the hind tarsi pale yellowish; claws slender, strongly curved, the 

 pulvilli about half the length of the claws. Genitalia; dorsal plate 

 deeply and triangularly emarginate, the lobes broadly emarginate; 

 ventral plate long, deeply and roundly emarginate, the lobes parallel, 

 slender; style long, slender, narrowly rounded. Type Cecid. 385. 



Itonida explicata Felt 

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

 The pale yellowish midge was takeii July 6, 1906 while collecting 

 on golden rod or Solidago and aster at Albany, N. Y. 



Male. Length 1.25 mm. Antennae one-fourth longer than the 

 body, thickly haired, light brown, yellowish basally; fourteen segments, 

 the fifth with stems two and three times their diameters; terminal 

 segment, distal enlargement produced and with a subfusiform append- 

 age constricted at the base and swollen at the basal fourth. Palpi; 

 first segment subrectangular, the second twice the length of the 

 first, stouter, the third longer and more slender than the second, 

 the fourth nearly twice the length of the third, slender. Face and 

 body pale yellowish. Genitalia slightly fuscous. Wings (pi. 16 



