REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST IQlG 



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Asteromyia abnormis Felt 



1907 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. no, p. no; separate, p. 1. 



(Choristoneura) 



190 8 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 329 (Baldratia) 



This species wa's taken at Albany, N. Y., July 24, 1906 on Solidago 



Female. Length 2 mm. Antennae 

 dark brown; 16 segments, the fifth 

 with a length a little greater than 

 its diameter; terminal segment twice 

 the length of the preceding, broadly 

 rounded. Palpi, one segment with 

 a length about three times its diam- 

 eter, slightly dilated, broadly rounded 

 apically. Mesonotum, scutellum and 

 postscutellum dark brown . Abdomen 

 presumably a nearly uniform dark 

 brown with irregular patches of 

 whitish scales on the pleurae. Wings 

 hyaline, costa dark brown, discal 

 spot whitish, the third vein uniting 

 with costa at the basal half; halteres 

 pale orange. Legs mostly dark 

 brown; claws stout, slightly curved. 

 Ovipositor probably about one-third 

 the length of the body; terminal 

 lobes short, broadly rounded distally 

 and thickly setose. 



This specimen is abnormal, since 

 the ninth and tenth segments on one antenna and the tenth to 

 thirteenth on the other were more or less irregularly fused. Type 



Fig. 42 Asteromyia abnor- 

 mis, seventh, eighth and ninth 

 antennal segments, the latter two 

 partly fused, greatly enlarged 

 (author's illustration) 



Cecid. 



676. 



Asteromyia asterifoliae Beutm. 



Beutenmueller, William. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. Bui. 23, p. 395-96 



(Lasioptera) 

 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 288 (Choristoneura 



h e 1 e n a Felt) , p. 329 (Baldratia fuscoanulata) 



Ottawa Nat., 22 1248 (Baldratia fuscoanulata) 



Econ. Ent. Jour., 3:349 



Stebbins, F. A. Springf. Mus. Nat. Hist. Bui. 2, p. 53 (Lasioptera) 



1907 



1908 



1909 

 1910 

 1910 



This species was reared by Professor Beutenmueller from aster 

 leaves taken in the valley of the Black mountains, North Carolina. 

 Apparently the same form has been reared by us from a circular 

 blister gall on Aster lateriflorus collected at Highland, adults 

 being obtained June 26, 1907. Presumably the same form was 

 reared from a blister gall on what is probably Aster laevis, 

 midges appearing July 25, 1907. 



