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the third vein uniting with the margin at the basal third. Halteres 

 pale salmon basally, whitish transparent apically. Legs mostly dark 

 brown, the articulations annulate with white, the bands broader on 

 the posterior tarsi; claws long, slender, strongly curved, the pulvilli 

 as long as the claws. Genitalia; basal clasp segment long, slender; 

 terminal clasp segment somewhat swollen at the base; dorsal plate 

 broad, deeply and triangularly emarginate; ventral plate long, slen- 

 der, narrowly truncate or slightly emarginate. Harpes long, stout. 

 Female. Length 2.75 mm. Antennae dark brown; basal seg- 

 ments fuscous yellowish; 23 segments, the fifth with a length about 

 three-fourths its diameter; terminal segment somewhat produced, 

 obtusely rounded. Palpi; first segment rather long, narrowly oval, 

 swollen distally, second a little shorter, stouter, the third a little 

 longer than the second, more slender, the fourth nearly twice the 

 length of the third, more slender. Mesonotum a rich dark brown, 

 the anterior lateral angles narrowly margined with silvery white, 

 the submedian lines sparsely clothed with light golden yellow scales 

 and with broad, submedian golden yellow vittae anteriorly. Scutel- 

 lum dark brown or black, rather thickly clothed with silvery white 

 scales, postscutellum dark brown. Ovipositor pale yellowish, the 

 venter suffused with silvery white scales, except rather indistinct 

 yellowish submedian lines. The white scales on the under surface 

 are prolonged laterally along the margins of the segments and form 

 a series of triangular marks. Wings (pi. 5, fig. 5) hyaline, costa 

 dark brown, the third vein uniting with the margin just before the 

 middle. Ovipositor about as long as the abdomen, the terminal 

 lobes long, broad, narrowly rounded. Type Cecid. aizj-io. 



Neolasioptera ramuscula Beutm. 



1907 Beutenmueller, William. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. Bui. 23, p. 392 

 (Cecidomyia) 



1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 333 

 1910 Econ. Ent. Jour., 3:349 



1910 Stebbins, F. A. Springf. Mus. Nat. Hist. Bui., 2:53-54 (Cecid- 

 omyia strobiligemma) 



1913 Beutenmueller, William. Can. Ent., 45:416 (Cecidomyia, in part) 



This species is a rather common inhabitant of fusiform stem galls 

 on several species of aster. It was originally reared by Professor 

 Beutenmueller from material taken in North Carolina. It has been 

 reared repeatedly from galls collected in the Hudson valley, while 

 the late Dr M. T. Thompson of Clark University, Worcester, Mass., 

 also reared this species. The gall of apparently this species has been 

 recorded by the late Dr William Brodie 1 under the name of D i p 1 o- 

 s i s p u n i c e i on Aster puniceus. It is probably widely 

 distributed. The larvae winter in the galls, adults appearing about 



Can. Ent., 41:150-51, 1909. 



