REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST l<M(> [10, 



heavy, recurved, chitinous processes near the distal third. Cecid. 

 an6s. 



Lasioptera basiflava Felt 

 1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 324 



A female representing this species was captured on grape at 

 Albany, N. Y., July 30, 1906. 



Female. Length 1 mm. Antennae dark brown; 15 segments, 

 the fifth with a length a little greater than its diameter; terminal 

 segment produced, narrowly oval. Palpi; the first segment short, 

 stout, irregularly subquadrate, the second, with a length about 

 two and one-half times its diameter, narrowly oval, the third one- 

 half longer and more slender, the fourth a little longer and more 

 slender than the third; eyes black, margined posteriorly with silvery 

 white scales. Mesonotum dark brown, the distinct submedian lines 

 with yellowish white scales. Scutellum dark reddish, postscutellum 

 dark brown. Abdomen a nearly uniform dark brown with the two 

 basal segments fuscous yellowish. Wings hyaline, broadly oval, 

 costa dark brown, the third vein uniting with the anterior margin 

 near the basal half. Halteres pale yellowish; coxae and femora 

 mostly pale yellowish, the distal portion of femora and tibiae reddish 

 brown; tarsi dark brown, the distal segments almost black; claws 

 long, slender, evenly curved, the pul villi nearly as long as the claws. 

 Ovipositor about as long as the body, the base with oval sublateral 

 patches of stout, halberd-shaped scales; terminal lobes slender, 

 narrowly rounded and basally a group of three or four stout, recurved, 

 chitinous processes. Type Cecid. 719. 



Lasioptera corni Felt 



1907 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. no, p. 107; separate, p. n 



1908 ■ N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 324 



1908 Jarvis, T. D. Ent. Soc. Ont., 38th Rep't, p. 86-87 

 1909 Ent. Soc. Ont., 39th Rep't, p. 79 



1910 Stebbins, F. A. Springf. Mus. Nat. Hist. Bui. 2, p. 46 

 1912 Cosens, A. Can. Inst. Trans., 9:323 



The bright, ocellate galls possibly producing this species are 

 exceedingly common in the vicinity of Albany, N. Y., on the leaves 

 of Cornus paniculata. They have also been observed 

 in mid July at West Nyack, Ellenville and Catskill, and undoubtedly 

 occur in most parts of New York State as well as in other localities 

 where the food plant is abundant. The young galls are pale green, 

 becoming ringed with bright red (for a colored illustration, see 

 Museum Bui. 175, pi. 3, fig. 19) about the middle of July; adults 

 were reared therefrom the latter part of August. 



Larva. Length 3 mm, pale orange, slender; head small, antennae 

 long, uniarticulate ; breastbone bidentate, broad, chitinous apically, 



