190 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



atter and a small bud gall 7 mm long and 2 mm wide, composed of 

 brownish, rudimentary bracts and inhabited by pale orange larvae. 

 The identity of the larva has not been established. 



Itonida spiiaeafiorae Felt 



1907 Felt, E. P. New Species of Cecidomyiidae II, p. 23 (Cecidoniyia) 



1908 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 304, 414 (Cecidomyia) 



191 8 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 200, p. 133 



This greenish bronze male was reared August 27, 1.907 from slightly 

 enlarged, reddened flowers ofvSpiraea salicifolia taken at 

 Albany, N. Y. 



Gall. The pale yellowish larvae of this species occur in the 

 slightly enlarged, reddened flowers. 



Male. Length 1.5 mm. Antennae one-half longer than the body, 

 thickly haired, pale straw; fourteen segments, the fifth with stems 

 having a length two and three times their diameters; terminal seg- 

 ment, distal enlargement produced and bearing a long, slender 

 appendage. Palpi prestunably composed of four segments; face pale 

 fuscous. Mesonotum brown, the submedian lines whitish. Scu- 

 tellum yellowish. Abdom.en a greenish bronze, the first segment 

 yellowish. Wings hyaline, costa light straw; halteres pale fuscous 

 yellowish. Coxae pale yellowish, femora yellowish at the base, 

 fuscous apically ; tibiae and tarsi fuscous ; claws long, slender, strongly 

 curved, simple, the pulvilli distinctly shorter than the claws. Geni- 

 talia; dorsal plate short, stout, deeply and triangularly incised, the 

 lobes narrowly separated, obliquely truncate; ventral plate long, 

 broad, the sides nearly parallel, broadly and roundly emarginate,' 

 the lobes long, slender, subacute; style long, slender, broadly rounded. 

 Type Cecid. ai68ib. 



Itonida uliginosa Felt 



1914 Felt, E. P. N. Y. Ent. Soc. Jour., 22:133 



This species was taken August 21, 1909, by C. P. Alexander in a 

 bog swamp at Woodworth's lake in the xAdirondacks, altitude 1570 

 feet. It may be distinguished from the related I. a p o c y n i Felt 

 by the yellowish orange body and the structure of the genitalia. 



Itonida hudsoni Felt 



1907 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. no, p, 135; separate, p. 39 

 (Cecidomyia) 



1908 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 414 (Cecidom5da) 



This reddish brown male was taken April 19, 1906 on red cedar 

 Juniper us virginiana,at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 



Male. Length 2 mm. Antennae a little longer than the body, 

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



