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matis. The egg is about .1 mm in length and with a diameter of 



.02 mm, reddish brown, slightly darker at one extremity. There 

 were at least three eggs in this crevice. The gall, presumably made 

 by this species, is ovate, reddish brown, about 4 mm long, 3 mm in 

 diameter and occurs at the base of the tendrils. 



Female. Length 1.5 mm. Antennae dark brown; 26 segments, 

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

 segment somewhat produced, narrowly obovate. Palpi; the first 

 segment short, stout, subquadrate, the second over twice the length 

 of the first, rather stout, the third as long as the second, more slender, 

 the fourth one-fourth longer than the third, more slender; face 

 thickly clothed with silvery scales. Mesonotum dark brown, 

 apparently margined laterally and anteriorly with silvery white 

 scales, the submedian lines sparsely haired. Scutellum and 

 postscutellum dark brown. Abdomen dark brown, the dorsum 

 of the first abdominal segment thickly clothed with silvery white 

 scales, second, third and fourth abdominal segments narrowly 

 margined posteriorly with silvery white markings, obsolete laterally. 

 Wings hyaline, costa dark brown, the whitish discal spot near the 

 basal half; the third vein uniting therewith. Halteres yellowish 

 basally, whitish apically. Coxae and extremities of femora and 

 tibiae broadly and variably yellowish, the middle dark brown, tarsi 

 dark brown, the distal segments yellowish, the latter possibly 

 denuded; claws rather short, stout, strongly curved, the pulvilli 

 nearly as long as the claws. Ovipositor probably two-thirds the 

 length of the abdomen, the terminal lobes long, slender, slightly 

 expanded distally. Type Cecid. ai5Q-6a. 



Neolasioptera sambuci Felt 



1906 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 104, p. 131 (Cecidomyia) 



1907 Beutenmueller, William. . Amer. Mus. of Nat. Hist. Bui. 23, p. 396 



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



1910 S.ebbins, F. A. Springf. Mus. Nat. Hist. Bui. 2, p. 48 



The irregular subcortical gall of this species is somewhat common 

 on elder, Sambucus canadensis, at Nassau, N. Y., and 

 vicinity and near New York City. Midges were reared by the late 

 Dr M. T. Thompson at Worcester, Mass. The irregular galls vary 

 greatly in size and may contain a considerable number of larvae, 

 the flies appearing early in June. A Torymid was reared from this 

 midge. The gall of this species is an irregular swelling usually on 

 one side of the smaller elder stems. It ranges in length from 2 to 4 

 cm and has a diameter of nearly 2 cm. 



Larva. Length 3 mm, yellowish red, rather stout. Head rather 

 large; antennae uniarticulate, slender; breastbone linear, slightly 

 enlarged apically, bidentate, with a rudimentary median tooth; 

 skin smooth; posterior extremity broadly rounded. 



