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posteriorly with silvery* white. Mesonotum dark brown. Scutellum 

 reddish brown, post scutellum a little darker. Abdomen sooty 

 brown, rather thickly and irregularly clothed dorsally with dark 

 brown scales. Wings hyaline, cost a basally and the third vein 

 thickly clothed with brownish scales, the third vein uniting with 

 the margin at the basal third. Halteres reddish transparent basally, 

 whitish transparent apically. Coxae reddish transparent, anterior 

 and mid femora and tibiae sooty yellow, posterior femora whitish 

 yellow, tibiae dark brown dorsally, lighter ventrally, tarsi dark 

 brown, the second and third segments narrowly ringed basally 

 with yellowish white; claws slender, uniformly curved. Ovipositor 

 as long as the abdomen; terminal lobes long, tapering, obtusely 

 rounded. Type Cecid. 82. 



Lasioptera juvenalis Felt 



1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 327 



This female was taken at Newport, N. Y., July 25, 1906 on 

 bouncing bet, Saponaria officinalis. 



Female. Length 1 mm. Antennae dark brown; 21 segments, 

 the fifth with a length about three-fourths its diameter ; terminal 

 segment slightly produced, tapering to a narrowly rounded apex. 

 Palpi; the first segment short, stout, somewhat expanded distally, 

 the second narrowly oval, with a length about three times its 

 diameter, the third a little longer and more slender, the fourth 

 one-fourth longer than the third, more slender. Mesonotum dark 

 brown. Scutellum dark brown basally, yellowish apically, 

 post scutellum and abdomen dark brown, ovipositor pale orange. 

 Wings hyaline, costa dark brown, the third vein uniting with the 

 anterior margin at the basal third. Halteres pale orange basally, 

 yellowish apically. Coxae and femora fuscous yellowish, narrowly 

 clothed exteriorly with fuscous scales; tibiae and tarsi mostly dark 

 brown, the latter narrowly ringed and indistinctly annulate distally 

 with yellowish; claws long, slender, evenly curved, the pulvilli 

 about half the length of the claws. Ovipositor about as long as 

 the body; terminal lobes long, slender, narrowly rounded. Type 

 Cecid. 703. 



Lasioptera clarkei Felt 



1909 Felt, E. P. Econ. Ent. Jour., 2:287 

 1910 Econ. Ent. Jour., 3:348 



Several females of this species were reared January 18, 1909 from 

 a whitish, circular, blister gall on the leaves of Aster macro- 

 phyllus collected by Cora H. Clarke at Magnolia, Mass., 

 October 12, 1908. 



Evidently this form winters in the gall, and from the character 

 of its nidus we would be inclined to refer it to the genus Asteromyia. 



