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Erosomyia mangiferae Felt 

 191 1 Felt, E. P. X. Y. Ent. Soc. Jour., 19:49-50 



The midge was reared by W. H. Patterson, St Vincent, W. I., 

 from presumably blister galls on very young leaves of M a n g i f e r a 

 i n d i c a. 



Toxomyia Felt 

 191 1 Felt, E. P. Ent. News, 22:302 

 1 91 3 Kieffer, J. J. Gen. Insect., fasc. 152, p. 173 



The unidentate anterior claws and the 2 circumfili indicate a 

 relationship to Erosomyia Felt from which it is easily separated by 

 alar characters. The genitalia approach in structure those of 

 Thecodiplosis. Type T. fungicola Felt. 



Fig. 14 Toxomyia 

 r u b i d a, fifth anten- 

 nal segment of male 

 (enlarged, original) 



Fig. 15 Toxo- 

 myia rubida , 

 fifth antennal 

 segment of female 

 (enlarged, origi- 

 nal) 



Key to Species 



a Stems of the fifth antennal segment of the male with a length two and one- 

 half and three and one-half times their diameters, respectively 

 b Body pale yellowish, length .75 mm; dorsal plate short, roundly and 



triangularly emarginate, the lobes broadly truncate 



fungicola Felt, C. a2 134 



bb Mesonotum yellowish brown; abdomen yellowish orange, length 1 mm; 



dorsal plate short, broad, broadly emarginate, the lobes obliquely 



truncate rubida Felt, C. a2 1 40 



