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distally. Palpi; the first segment short, irregularly subquadrate, 

 second broader, suboval, a little longer, the third more slender 



and longer, and the fourth one-fourth longer than the third; face 

 yellowish brown, with a while patch on the front; eyes rather large, 

 black. Mesonotum nearly uniform dark brown, margined anteriorly 

 and laterally with silvery white hairs and with a sprinkling of the 

 same on the margin of the nearly naked posterior median area. 

 Scutellum brownish, rather thickly clothed with silvery white hairs, 

 and a few longer apical whitish bristles; postscutellum dark brown. 

 Abdomen dark brown, the first segment thickly clothed with snow- 

 white hairs, the second, third and fourth segments broadly margined 

 posteriorly with snow-white hairs, the bands being wider on the 

 median line, the fifth narrowly margined with white, the seventh 

 entirely brown, margined posteriorly with long, white bristles, 

 the eighth yellowish and margined with long, white bristles; ventral 

 surface dark brown, with a broad, median silvery white stripe; 

 genitalia dark brown, tipped with silvery white. Wings hyaline, 

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

 basal third. Halteres and coxae yellowish transparent; femora 

 and tibiae dark brown, banded at the extremity with yellowish 

 white; tarsi pale yellowish brown, darker distally; claws stout, 

 strongly curved. Genitalia; terminal clasp segment with the basal 

 fourth greatly swollen; dorsal plate broad, deeply and triangularly 

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

 rounded. Harpes sub triangular. 



Female. Length 2 mm. Antennae dark brown, basally yellowish 

 white; 23-24 segments. Coloration practically as in the other 

 sex, except that the dorsal apical bands on the abdomen do not 

 appear quite so broad and the terminal segments are yellowish; 

 the broad, median stripe on the venter of the abdomen is not quite 

 so wide as in the opposite sex. Ovipositor probably three-fourths 

 the length of the abdomen, the terminal lobe slender. Type Cecid. 

 1376. 



Lasioptera caulicola Felt 



1907 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. no, p. 162 



1908 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 325 



A number of females of this species were reared June 3, 1907 from 

 an apparently normal stem of bush honeysuckle taken in the vicinity 

 of Albany. The stem was only 3 to 4 mm in diameter and showed 

 no external sign of infestation, though a subsequent examination 

 disclosed the fact that some seven or eight adults had emerged 

 from a portion less than 3 cm long. The larvae appear to live 

 just under the bark in a small cell hardly large enough to contain 

 the full-grown insect. 



Female. Length 2 mm. Antennae dark brown, the basal seg- 

 ments fuscous yellowish; 23 segments, the fifth with a length about 

 three-fourths the diameter; terminal segment obpyriform. Palpi; 



