REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST I918 207 



Itonida cincta Felt 



19U Felt, E. P. Econ. Ent, Jour., 4:558 



1918 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 200, p. 54 



This name is applied to a series of well-marked females reared by 

 the late C. V. Riley from larvae taken under oak bark. Though the 

 markings simulate closely those of Lestodiplosis, the long ovipositor 

 and the relatively broad lobes prevent its reference thereto and we 

 have therefore tentatively placed it in the above-named genus. It 

 is such a well-marked form that there should be no difficulty in 

 recognizing it subsequently. Specimens, evidently from the same 

 lot, occur in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, 

 Mass. 



Itonida piperitae Felt 



1907 Felt, E. P. New Species Cecidomyiidae II, p. 22 (Cecidomyia) 



1908 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 303 (Cecidomyia) 



This yellowish female was reared September 4, 1907 from small, 

 enlarged terminal buds on peppermint, Mentha piperita, 

 taken at Nassau, N. Y. 



Gall. Green, hoary, pyriform, slightly enlarged buds, diameter 

 3 mm. 



Female. Length 1.25 mm. Antennae as long as the body, sparsely 

 haired, brown, yellowish basally; fourteen segments, the fifth with 

 a stem three-fourths the length of the basal enlargement, which 

 latter has a length about twice its diameter; terminal segment 

 produced, the distal enlargement with a length three times its diam- 

 eter, apically a long, slender appendage. Palpi; first segment short, 

 stout, subquadrate, the second one-half longer, more slender, the 

 third a little longer and more slender than the second, the fourth 

 one-third longer and more slender than the third. Face- yellowish. 

 Mesonottmi shaded orange red, the submedian lines indistinct. 

 Scutellum reddish basally, light fuscous apically; postscutellum deep 

 orange. Abdomen pale orange. Costa light reddish brown, sub- 

 costa uniting therewith near the basal third, the third vein just 

 beyond the apex. Halteres pale yellowish, slightly fuscous sub- 

 apically. Legs light yellowish orange, the articulations variably 

 tinged with carmine; claws long, slender, strongly curved, simple, 

 the pulvilli nearly as long as the claws. Ovipositor short, the ter- 

 minal lobes narrowly oval, with a length three times the width. 

 Type Cecid. ai663C. 



Itonida abdominalis nov nom. 



1907 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. no, p. 124-25; separate, p. 28 

 ( O ligo trop hu s caryae) 



The reddish brown female was taken on hickory, Carya,, at Albany, 

 N. Y., June i, 1906. 



