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ovipositor orange yellow. Wings hyaline, costa dark- brown, the 

 third vein uniting with the margin near the distal third, the discal 

 spot small, white. Halteres yellowish orange, slightly fuscous api- 

 cally. Coxae and femora mostly pale golden yellow, the tibiae and 

 tarsi a rich brown, except for the snow-white distal portion of the 

 third, the fourth and fifth tarsal segments of the posterior legs; 

 claws stout, the pulvilli as long as the claws. Ovipositor about 

 half the length of the abdomen, the terminal lobes long, narrowly 

 oval. Type Cecid. 804. 



Neolasioptera helianthi Felt 



1907 Felt, E. P. New Species of Cecidomyiidae II, p. 7, 8 (Choristoneura) 



1908 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 288-89 (Choristoneura), 



P- 332 



This species was reared September 3, 1907 from Helianthus 

 strumosus. taken at Highland, N. Y., and supposed to bear 

 only the galls of Asphondylia globulus O. S. 



Female. Length 2.75 mm. Antennae dark brown, basally silvery 

 white; 18 segments, the fifth with a length about three-fourths its 

 diameter; terminal segment slightly produced, broadly oval. Palpi; 

 first segment rather stout, with a length more than twice its greatest 

 diameter, the second about as long as the first, much stouter, the 

 third one-fourth longer than the second, much more slender and the 

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

 white. Mesonotum dark brown, mostly denuded, the submedian 

 lines dark. Scutellum ornamented with numerous silvery hairs, 

 postscutellum with silvery hairs laterally. Abdomen black, the 

 segments narrowly margined posteriorly with silvery white, the 

 latter interrupted at the middle, venter silvery white. Wings hya- 

 line, costa dark brown, the third vein uniting with the anterior 

 margin near the distal third. Halteres fuscous, lighter basally. 

 Coxae black with silvery hairs, the anterior and mid femora gray 

 to the apical third, the posterior lighter at the base, all black distally 

 and with the incisures clothed with silvery white scales ; tibiae black 

 with the articulations clothed with silvery scales; tarsi black, gray 

 vent rally; claws long, rather stout, strongly curved, the pulvilli as 

 long as the claws. Ovipositor probably nearly as long as the body, 

 terminal lobes long, rather broad, tapering, narrowly rounded. 

 Type Cecid. ai7i8x. 



Neolasioptera flavomaculata Felt 



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



This form was taken on a window July 11, 1906 at Albany, N. Y. 



Female. Length 1.6 mm. Antennae dark brown, basally pale- 

 straw; 18 segments, the fifth with a length a little less than its 

 diameter, terminal segment produced, apparently composed of two 



