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entirely covered by scales. Scutellturj dark brown with pale yellowish 

 apically, postscutellum yellowish brown. Abdomen dark brown 

 with the first segment clothed dorsal ly with silvery white scales, 

 the fourth and fifth segments thickly clothed with dark brown 

 scales and the others more sparsely clothed with scales of the same 

 color, the posterior margin of the segments a dull yellowish orange, 

 seventh and eighth segments mostly yellowish orange, the former 

 narrowly margined posteriorly with dark brown. Genitalia dark 

 brown; pleura dark brown, venter sparsely clothed with silvery 

 white scales. Wings hyaline, costa dark brown, the third vein 

 joining costa at the basal half; halteres pale yellowish. Coxae 

 fuscous yellowish, femora and tibiae dark brown, pale yellowish 

 apically, tarsi nearly uniform dark brown; claws rather heavy, 

 strongly curved. Genitalia; basal clasp segment stout, terminal 

 clasp segment stout, swollen basally; dorsal plate broad, deeply 

 incised, the lobes broadly rounded; ventral plate broad, tapering 

 to a broadly rounded apex. Harpes slender, stout, approximate, 

 indistinctly dentate; style broadly rounded. 



Female. Length 1.2 mm. Antennae dark brown; 23 segments, 

 the fifth with a diameter one-half greater than the length. Palpi; 

 the first segment short, rather broadly orbicular, second nearly 

 twice the length of the first and broad, the third as long as the second, 

 but more slender and the fourth one-half longer than the third. 

 Face fuscous, eyes large, black and margined posteriorly with dull 

 silvery scales, the head mostly dark brown posteriorly. Mesonotum 

 a rich purplish brown, broadly margined laterally and anteriorly 

 with dull silvery scales. Scutellum yellowish brown, postscutellum 

 a little darker. Abdomen dark purplish brown, the segments 

 narrowly margined posteriorly with dull silvery, that of the second 

 and third apparently broadly interrupted along the median line, 

 ovipositor pale orange. Wings hyaline, costa dark brown, the third 

 vein unites w T ith the yellowish orange discal spot at the basal half. 

 Halteres yellowish basally, silvery white apically. Legs mostly 

 a rich brown, the femora and tibiae annulate with light yellow 

 at the articulations. Coxae a deep orange; claws moderately heavy, 

 strongly curved. Ovipositor short, terminal lobes small, broadly 

 orbicular. Type Cecid. an66. 



Lasioptera vernoniae Beutm. 



1907 Beutenmueller, William. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. Bui., 23:389-90 



1907 Cook, M. T. Acad. Sci. Proc, separate, p. 7-8 



1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124:324 (L. vernoniflora e) 

 1913 Beutenmueller, William. Can. Ent., 45:415 



This species has been reared from flower and leaf galls on ironweed, 

 Vernonia noveboracensis taken in Virginia and at 

 Washington, D. C. Adults reared from Virginia material by the 

 United vStates Bureau of Entomology, appeared September 23, 1 S S 5 



