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ment of the circumfila in the sexes and the simple claws indicate an 

 affinity with Hormomyia. Type and sole species, M. b u x i Lab. 



Monarthropalpus buxi Lab. 

 Box Leaf Midge 



1873 Laboulbene, Alexandre. Soc. Ent. Fr. Ann., ser. 5, 3:32 Tab. 9 



1913 Chaine, J. Sci. Nat., Zool., Ann. (Paris), IX sen, 17:269 -359 



1913 c, R. Hebdom. Soc. de Biol., 74:156-58 



1913 Felt, E. P. Tree Talk, v. i, no. 2, p. 18 



1915 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 180, p. 42 -46 



1918 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 200, p. 158 



This rather large, yellowish orange midge was found by Prof. 

 A. E. Stene in May 1910 infesting a box hedge, Buxus sem- 



Fig. 53 Monarthropal- 

 pus buxi, box leaves show- 

 ing galls (author's illustra- 

 tion) 



pervirens, at Newport, R I. Galls received May 2sth pro- 

 duced an abundance of midges. It occurs in a number of localities 



