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Abdomen brownish red. Wings hyaline, the larger veins tinged with 

 red. Halteres yellowish transparent. Legs straw yellow, tarsi a 

 little darker apically; claws slender, strongly curved. Genitalia; 

 dorsal plate slender, deeply emarginate, the lobes broadly rounded. 

 Type Cecid. 9. (See plate 9, fig. 5) 



Contarinia balsamifera Felt 



1907 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. no, p. 131; separate, p. 34-35 



1908 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 393 



This small, yellowish red species was exceedingly common in the 

 balsam trees about Lake Clear, June 7, 1906. Swarms were observed 

 one still afternoon flying about balsam, Abies balsamifera, 

 and it was also taken about hemlock or hemlock spruce, Abies 

 canadensis. This may be identical with the D i p 1 o s i s 

 balsamifera Lintn., though none of the characteristic galls 

 were discoverable. 



Male. Length 1 mm. Antennae about twice as long as the body, 

 thickly haired, light brown; 14 segments, the fifth with stems each 

 two and one-half times their diameter; terminal segment, basal 

 enlargement subglobular, the distal enlargement fusiform, the apex 

 slightly produced, narrowly rounded. Palpi; the first segment 

 short, subquadrate, the second subrectangular, twice the length of 

 the preceding, the third more slender, a little longer, the fourth a 

 little longer and more slender than the preceding; face yellowish 

 brown. Mesonotum dark brown, the posterior median area lighter, 

 submedian lines yellowish. Scutellum yellowish carmine, post- 

 scutellum and abdomen light yellowish red. Wings hyaline, costa 

 light brown; halteres whitish transparent. Legs nearly uniform 

 light brown, lighter ventrally, tarsi darker; claws slender, strongly 

 and uniformly curved. Genitalia; dorsal plate broad, deeply and 

 triangularly incised, the lobes narrowly rounded. Type Cecid. 143. 



Contarinia pyrivora Riley 



Pear Midge 

 1884 Ormerod, E. A. Obsv. Inj. Ins. 7th Rep't, p. 52-54 (Cecidomyia 

 nigra) 



1884 Smith, J. B. U. S. Com. Agric. Rep't, p. 396-98 (Cecidomyia) 



1885 Riley, C. V. U. S. Com. Agric. Rep't, p. 283-89 (Diplosis) 



1887 Wien. Ent. Zeit., 6:201-6 (Diplosis nigra) 



1888 & Howard, L. O. Ins. Life, 1 : 120-21 (Diplosis) 



1888 Meade, R. H. Entomologist, 21 : 123-31 (Diplosis) 



1888 Bloomfield, E. N. Ent. Monthly Mag., 24:273-74 (Cecidomyia 

 nigra Meig.) 



1889 Ent. Month. Mag., 25:323-24 (Cecidomyia) 



1891 Lintner J. A. Can. Ent., 23:223-24 (Diplosis) 



1891 Riley, C. V. & Howard, L. O. Ins. Life, 4:125 (Platygaster 

 p h i 1 a n n a Walk., reared, D. nigra Meig.) 



