REPORT OF THE STAT]-. ENTOMOLOGIST [Ql6 [8] 



posteriorly with yellowish white scales, ventral surface pale yellow- 

 ish. Wings hyaline, costa with dark brown scales, third vein 

 uniting with costa at the basal third; halteres pale reddish 

 basally, whitish apically. Coxae pale yellowish, femora mostly 

 pale yellowish, tibiae yellowish ventrally, with some dark brown 

 dorsallv, tarsi dark brown, the segments narrowly annulate with 

 light reddish yellow basally; claws rather long, slender, evenly 

 curved, the tooth long. Genitalia (pi. 7, fig. 4) ; basal clasp segment 

 long, obliquely truncate; terminal clasp segment swollen at the 

 base, tapering. Dorsal plate broad, very deeply and triangularly 

 incised, ventral plate broad. Harpes stout, subtriangular, obtusely 

 rounded. Type Cecid. 427. 



Neolasioptera liriodendri Felt 



1907 Felt, E. P N. Y. State Mus. Bui. no, p. 109-10; separate, p. 13 



(Choristoneura) 

 1908 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 331 



This species was taken on a tulip tree, Liriodendron 

 tulipiferae, at Albany, N. Y., June 8, 1906. The tree was 

 more or less infested by Thecodiplosis liriodendri 

 Jack, a species producing the characteristic purplish blister galls 

 on the leaves. 



Male. Length 2.5 mm. Antennae dark brown, lighter basally; 

 18 segments, the fifth with a length scarcely greater than its diameter; 

 terminal segment suboval, sometimes free and occasionally fused 

 with the preceding. Palpi; the first segment short, irregularly 

 quadrate, slightly swollen distally, the second a little longer, narrowly 

 oval, the third more slender, the fourth twice the length of the third. 

 Head small, dark. Mesonotum dark brown, shining, clothed with 

 long, white hairs, more abundant anteriorly and seen from the 

 side, appearing like a collar, submedian lines rather abundantly 

 clothed with fine hairs. Scutellum and postscutellum reddish. 

 Abdomen with the basal segment covered with white scales, the 

 second black basally, the dark color with three distal prolongations, 

 that on the median line extending across the segment; the third 

 segment has the three dark points extending across the segment, 

 the fourth is decidedly reddish yellow, the fifth narrowly so at the 

 base and clothed with a patch of dark scales. Wings hyaline, 

 costa thickly clothed with dark brown scales basally, the third vein 

 uniting with costa at the basal third (pi. 5, fig. 6); halteres white. 

 Legs pale yellow, with the tarsi slightly darker at the tips 

 of the segments; claws rather long, stout, uniformly curved. 

 Genitalia (pi. 7, fig. 3); basal clasp segment long, obliquely truncate; 

 terminal clasp segment swollen at the base. Dorsal plate broad, 

 deeply and triangularly incised, ventral plate broad, broadly rounded: 

 Harpes stout, irregularly subtriangular. Type Cecid. 291. 



