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basally; dorsal plate broad, broadly and triangularly incised; ventral 

 plate broad, broadly rounded. Harpes long, stout, tapering, obtuse- 



Female. Length 2 mm. Antennae dark brown, fuscous basally; 

 29 segments, the fifth with a length three-fourths or one-half its 

 diameter; terminal segment somewhat produced, tapering to an 

 obtusely rounded apex. Palpi; the first segment short, stout, 

 irregularly subquadrate, the second about twice as long, stout, 

 subrectangular, the third a little longer and more slender than the 

 second, somewhat dilated subapically, the fourth about twice as 

 long as the third, more slender; face with a patch of silvery white 

 scales. Mesonotum dark brown, variably margined laterally and 

 anteriorly with silvery white, the submedian lines sparsely haired 

 posteriorly. Scutellum dark brown with numerous whitish setae 

 apically, postscutellum dark brown. Abdomen dark brown, the 

 basal segments silvery white dorsally, the third and fourth rather 

 broadly margined posteriorly with silvery white, obsolete laterally, 

 the second very narrowly so along the median line; ovipositor pale 

 yellowish; venter black with the broad median area silvery white. 

 Legs mostly dark brown, the extremities of the femora and tibiae 

 vanablv annulate with whitish or yellowish; tarsi darker; the pulvilli 

 as long as the claws. Ovipositor about as long as the abdomen; 

 terminal lobes long, slender, narrowly rounded. 



The above descriptions were drafted from material reared from 

 galls taken in the vicinity of New York City. Type Cecid. a^oo. 



Neolasioptera cornicola Beutm. 



1907 Beutenmueller, William. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. Bui. 23:394-95 (Lasi- 



optera) 



1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 332 



1909 Ent. Soc. Ont., 39th Rep't, p. 44 



The gall is common on dogwood, Cornus stolonifera, 

 in the vicinity of New York City, occurs at West Nyack, N. Y., 

 and is abundant at Nassau, N. Y. It is presumably found in other 

 sections of the State. It is an extremely variable subcortical swelling 

 which resembles that produced by N . s a m b u c i Felt on elder. 

 The larvae winter in the gall, adults appearing in early May in the 

 latitude of Albany, N. Y., and from March to June in the vicinity of 

 Washington, D. C. A Polygnotus species was reared from this gall. 



Gall. An irregular, nodular, polythalamous, woody gall on the 

 small twigs, the larger branches and the old stems of Cornus 

 stolonifera. It varies in length from 1 to 2 cm, is very irregular 

 and is confined as a rule to one side of the twig. 



Larva. Length 2.5 mm, rather stout, pale orange. Head small; 

 antennae uniarticulate, small; breastbone linear, bidentate, with -a 

 rudimentary median tooth, tapering and almost obsolete basally; 

 skin nearly smooth; posterior extremity broadly rounded. 



