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median lines indistinct.^] Scutelltiin and postscutellum reddish 

 brown. Abdomen rather thickly clothed with yellowish hairs, a 

 variable reddish brown. Wings hyaline, costa light straw; halteres 

 yellowish transparent, slightly fuscous apically. Coxae, femora and 

 tibiae a variable dark brown and yellowish, the segments slightly 

 fuscous apically; claws slender, strongly curved, the pulvilli nearly 

 as long as the claws. Genitalia; basal clasp segment greatly swollen, 

 ovate, with a length only one-fourth greater than the diameter; 

 terminal clasp segment as long, stout, curved; dorsal plate short, 

 broadly emarginate, the lobes broadly rounded; ventral plate deeply 

 and triangularly emarginate, the lobes divergent, tapering; style 

 short, tapering, narrowly rounded. Type Cecid. 1265. 



Itonida aibotarsa Felt 



1907 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. no, p. 132-33; separate, p. 36 

 (Cecidomyia) 



The yellowish male was taken on hickory, Carya, at Albany, 

 N. Y., June 19, 1906. 



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

 haired, light brown; fourteen segments, the fifth with stems one 

 and one-half and two times their diameters, respectively; terminal 

 segment produced, the distal enlargement constricted at the basal 

 third, with a length over twice its diameter and apically with a 

 short, conical appendage. Palpi; first segment subquadrate, the 

 second with a length three times its diameter, the third a little 

 longer, more slender, the fourth one-third longer than the third. 

 Mesonotum yellowish, sparsely clothed with black hairs. Abdomen 

 yellowish, lighter distally, the segments margined posteriorly with 

 long, black hairs. Wing (pi. 15, fig. 8) with costa dark iDrown; 

 halteres yellowish, slightly fuscous apically. Legs thickly clothed 

 with fuscous hairs, yellowish basally; tibiae black, the tarsi fuscous, 

 except the white second of the anterior and the second to fifth of 

 the posterior. Genitalia (pi. 19, fig. 2); dorsal plate short, deeply 

 and triangularly emarginate, the lobes broadly rounded; ventral 

 plate long, deeply and triangularly emarginate, the lobes triangular; 

 style short, narrowly rounded. Type Cecid. 330. 



Itonida taxodii Felt 

 191 1 Felt, E. P. Econ. Ent. Jour., 4:556-57 

 1918 N. Y, State Mus. Bui. 200, p. 19 



. This insect, characterized earlier, was reared in February and 

 March 1883, by the late Theodore Pergande from a conical, globular 

 or elongated deformation of the leaves of bald cypress, T a x o - 

 dium distichum, collected by H. G. Hubbard in Florida. 

 Specimens were kindly placed at our disposal for study through the 

 courtesy of the LTnited States National Museum. 



