REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 1916 



121 



segment shaded with yellowish; claws long, slender, strongly curved, 

 the pulvilli about as long as the claws. Ovipositor nearly as long 

 as the abdomen, the terminal lobes long, rather slender, broadly 

 rounded. Type Cecid. a 1697b. 



1 89 1 

 1892 

 1904 



1905 

 1906 



Lasioptera clavula Beutm. 



Townsend, C. H. T. Ent. Soc. Wash. Proc, 2:390-91 

 Beutenmueller, William. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Bui., 4:269 

 Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., Guide Leaflet 16, p. 29 



Cook, M. T. Dep't Geol. & Nat. Res. Ind., 29th Rep't, p. 841 

 Felt, E. P. Ins. Affec. Pk. & Wdld. Trees, N. Y. State Mus. Mem. 8, 

 2 736 

 1907 Beutenmueller, William. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. Bui., 23:396 



1907 Jarvis, T. D. Ent. Soc. Ont., 37th Rep't, p. 69 



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



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



191c Stebbins, F. A. Springf. Mus. Nat. Hist. Bui. 2, p. 45 



This gall appears to be rather 

 common in the vicinity of Albany 

 southward to New York City. It 

 has been recorded from Indiana 

 by Mr Cook and listed from On- 

 tario by Mr Jarvis. The bright 

 orange larvae, according to Beuten- 

 mueller, desert the galls in Sep- 

 tember and October and enter the 

 ground, though we have found 

 a few larvae in galls in the spring. 

 This latter is presumably excep- 

 tional. The galls vary in color as 

 they age from green to a variable 

 red. A species of Polygnotus was 

 also reared. 



Gall. The galls of this species 

 are about 2.5 cm long and are 

 invariably on the more tender 

 twigs, usually near the extremity 

 and more or less variable in form. 

 As a rule they are somewhat pro- 

 duced and fusiform, occasionally 

 being subglobular, and sometimes 

 two or three may occur on a twig 

 so near together as to almost fuse 

 one with the other. This deform- 

 ity is found only on the flowering 

 dogwood (Cornus florida). 



Fig. 10 Lasioptera clavula, 

 various types of galls, about natural 

 size (original) 



tains a long rather large central cavity. 



The interior of the gall con- 



