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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



1907 

 IQ08 



Neolasioptera solani Felt 



Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. no, p. 164 (Choristoneura) 

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



loaned by the United States National Museum, 

 16-22, 1896 from a stem gall on Solanum 

 taken at Ivy City, D. C. The gall referred by 



This species, 

 was reared April 

 carolinense, 

 us to this species was very common at Asheville, N. C, September 

 1906. The larvae winter in the gall, the adults appearing in the 

 spring. 



Gall. An irregular stem swelling 3.75 to 5 cm in length and with 

 a diameter of about 1.75 cm. It is usually mostly on 

 one side of the stem and spined. 



Larva. Length 2.5 mm, rather stout, pale orange. 

 Head rather broad; antennae uniarticulate, slender, 

 tapering; breastbone rudimentary, unidentate; skin 

 smooth; posterior extremity broadly rounded. Larva 

 probably young. 



Female. Length 1.5 mm. Antennae dark brown; 

 23 segments, the fifth with a length about equal to its 

 diameter; terminal segment reduced, subglobose. 

 Palpi; the first segment small, sub quadrate, the second 

 short, dilated, a little longer than the first, the third 

 a little longer than the second, narrowly rounded, the 

 fourth nearly twice the length of the third, slender. 

 Mesonotum dark reddish brown, broadly and irregu- 

 larly margined with yellowish white, the submedian 

 lines thickly clothed with short, yellowish setae. 

 Scutellum reddish yellow, a few small setae apically, 

 postscutellum reddish brown. Abdomen dark brown, 

 the first abdominal segment yellowish-white scaled, the 

 second to fifth segments narrow^ margined posteriorly 

 with silvery white, broadly interrupted along the 

 median line, ovipositor pale yellowish; venter thickly suffused 

 with silvery white scales. Wings hyaline, costa dark brown, the 

 silvery white discal spot near the basal half, the third vein uniting 

 with costa just before the basal half. Halteres pale yellowish 

 transparent. Coxae and base of femora mostly a pale yellowish, 

 the other parts of the legs a variable dark brown, the tarsi lighter; 

 claws long, slender, strongly curved, the pulvilli about as long as 

 the claws. Ovipositor about two-thirds the length of the abdomen, 

 basally oval patches of stout, halberd-shaped spines, the terminal 

 lobe long, tapering, and with a group of dark, stout hooks. Type 

 Cecid. 903. 



Neolasioptera clematidis Felt 

 1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 287-88, 331 



The female was observed at Newport, N. Y., July 17, 1907 as 

 she was attempting to oviposit in a small slit in the stem of Cle- 



Fig. 30 Neo- 

 lasiop- 

 tera so- 

 lani, gall, 

 natural size 

 (original) 



