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ately long and stout. Palpi; first segment short, stout, second a 

 little longer, stouter, third with a length about two and one-half 

 tirr.es the second. Mesonotum dark brown, submedian lines lighter, 

 sparsely haired. Scutellum yellowish brown. Postscutellum darker. 

 Abdomen reddish brown, the segments rather thickly margined 

 posteriorly with brown setae, genitalia lighter. Costa light straw, 

 subcosta greatly thickened basally, uniting with the margin before 

 the basal half, the third vein just before the apex, the fifth at the 

 distal fourth, its branch at the basal half. Halteres pale yellowish. 

 Legs light yellowish straw. Claws long, slender, strongly curved, 

 unidentate, the pulvilli as long as the claws. Genitalia; basal clasp 

 segment lcng, broad and with a greatly produced, rather slender, 

 triangular lobe at the internal basal angle, terminal clasp segment 

 moderately long, stcut; dorsal plate long, broad, deeply and nar- 

 rowly incised, the lobes narrowly rounded, ventral plate long, broad 

 and broadly rounded. Type Cecid. 1006. 



lobodiplosis Felt 

 1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 397 



1910 Rifbsaamen, E. H. Zeitsch. Wissenschaft. Insektenbiol., 15:289 



191 1 Felt, E. P. N. Y. Ent. Soc. Jour., 19:54 



19 13 Kieffer, J. J. Gen. Insect., fasc. 152, p. 192 



The genus was erected for certain small, orange or yellowish orange 

 forms, easily recognized by the unidentate anterior claws, the third 

 vein uniting with costa well beyond the apex, the distinct apical 

 lobe of the basal clasp segment and the more or less well-developed 

 trinodose character of the flagellate antennal segments in the male. 

 The palpi are quadriarticulate and the harpes strongly curved 

 and heavily chitinized. The type species is Mycodiplosis 

 a c e r i n a Felt. 



Nothing is known concerning the life history of members of the 

 species though it would not be surprising if they were zoophagous. 

 The type species, L. a c e r i n a Felt is evidently widely distrib- 

 uted and persists through a considerable part of the growing season. 



Key to Species 



a Apical lobe of the basal clasp segment broadly rounded 



b Lobe apical, broadly rounded distally, the fifth antennal segment 

 having stems with a length two and three times their diameters, 



respectively acerina Felt, C. 243 



bb Lobe subapical, thickly setose, the fifth antennal segment having 

 stems with a length two and two and one-half times their diameters, 



respectively borealisn. sp., C. 1 753 



aa Apical lobe of the basal clasp segment triangular 



b Apical lobe long, narrowly triangular, the fifth antennal segment 

 having stems with a length two and two and one-half times their 

 diameters, respectively triangularis n. sp., C. 1443 



