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Legs dark brown; claws long, stout, strongly curved, the pulvilli 

 as long as the claws. Genitalia; basal clasp segment short, stout; 

 terminal clasp segment greatly swollen at the basal third; dorsal 

 plate short, very broad, broadly and roundly emarginate; ventral 

 plate a little longer, narrow, broadly rounded. Harpes short, 

 stout, tapering, apex irregular. Type Cecid. ai52o. 



Asteromyia albomaculata Felt 



1907 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. no, p. in; separate, p. 14-15 



(Choristoneura) 



1908 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 328 (Baldratia) 



This species was captured on Solidago at Albany, N. Y., August 

 14, 1906 and was reared July 15th from a small, blister gall on aster 

 taken at Jamesburgh, N. J., and from a blister gall on Solidago 

 taken at Westfield, N. Y., July 18, 1907. 



Gall. The blister gall on aster leaf producing this species, is 3 to 

 4 mm in diameter, a diffuse yellowish, with a dark center and a 

 narrow, dark margin. 



Female. Length 2 mm. Antennae pale yellowish; 18 segments, 

 the fifth with a length a little less than its diameter, the two terminal 

 segments partly or completely fused. Palpi; the first segment 

 short, stout, greatly expanded distally, the second more slender, 

 elongate. Mesonotum black with a median pale line. Scutellum 

 black. Abdomen black, segments one to three with submedian 

 white spots; incisures reddish yellow; ovipositor yellowish. Wings 

 subhy aline, costa dark brown, discal spot whitish, the third vein 

 uniting with costa at the basal half; halteres slightly yellowish, 

 nearly covered with black scales. Coxae yellowish with a few 

 white scales and the anterior and mid pair with long, black setae 

 anteriorly; femora with the basal two-thirds whitish,, the remainder 

 black; tibiae and tarsi black; claws stout, strongly curved. 

 Ovipositor moderately long, the terminal lobes rather long, broadly 

 rounded. Type Cecid. 758. 



- Asteromyia squarrosae Felt 



1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 329 (Baldratia) 



1909 Ottawa Nat., 22:248 (Baldratia) 



The species was reared July 20, 1907 from irregular blister galls 

 on Solidago squarrosa taken at Rhinecliff, N. Y., July 

 17th. It was also reared by Dr A. Cosens from S. serotina 

 and S. squarrosa collected at Toronto, Canada, in June, 19 14. 



Gall. A grayish brown, black-margined, irregular blister gall 

 about 3 mm in diameter. 



Female. Length 1.5 mm. Antennae dark brown; 19 segments, 

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

 segment produced, broadly oval. Palpi; the first segment short, 



