REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 1916 227 



tarsi dark brown; claws Long, slender, strongly curved, the pulvilli 

 shorter than the claws. Genitalia; basal clasp segment stout; 

 terminal clasp segment stout; dorsal plate short, broad, triangularly 

 incised; ventral plate short, broad, broadly rounded. Harpes 

 tapering, obtuse, tuberculate. 



Female. Length 2.25 mm. Antennae with 18 segments, the 

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

 ment produced, evidently composed of two closely fused, broadly 

 rounded distally. Palpi; basal segment slender, obconic; tenrrinal 

 segment longer, tapering, subacute. Colorational and other char- 

 acters probably as in the opposite sex. Ovipositor about half the 

 length of the abdomen; terminal lobes short, broadly oval. 



A very similar and probably identical species was reared May 5th 

 from a slightly different gall taken in the same vicinity and num- 

 bered aiS2Q. Type Cecid. ai824. 



Asteromyia nitida Felt 



1909 Felt, E. P. Econ. Ent. Jour., 2:286 (Baldratia) 



1910 Econ. Ent. Jour., 3:348 



This species was reared April 17, 1908 from a shining, yellowish 

 gall on the basal leaves of aster collected at Meadowdale near Albany, 

 N. Y., October 23, 1907. 



Gall. The gall is large, smooth, slightly glossy, yellowish, oval 

 and 6 to 7 mm in diameter. It is found on the long, often purplish 

 basal leaves. 



Female. Length 2 mm. Antennae dark brown, the basal seg- 

 ments yellowish; 21 segments, the fifth with a length three-fourths 

 its diameter; terminal segment produced, compound, broadly 

 rounded apically. Palpi biarticulate. Face yellowish. Meso- 

 notum dark brown, the submedian lines and lateral margins clothed 

 with yellowish scales. Scutellum dark brown with white scales 

 apically, post scutellum dark reddish brown. Abdomen dark brown, 

 the segments narrowly margined with silvery white scales, the latter 

 interrupted laterally and mesially. Venter clothed with silvery 

 white scales. Wings hyaline, the third vein uniting with costa just 

 beyond the basal half; halteres yellowish basally, fuscous apically. 

 Coxae and base of femora a variable yellowish, the remainder of the 

 legs dark brown. Ovipositor short, terminal lobes broadly oval. 

 Type Cecid. ai820. 



Asteromyia convoluta Felt 



1907 Felt, E. P. X. Y. State Mus. Bui. no, p. no (Choristoneura) 



19 08 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 329 (Baldratia) 



1909 Ottawa Nat., 22:246 (Baldratia) 



This species was reared from a loose, convolute tip gall on Solidago', 

 which was taken at Albany, N. Y., August 11, 1907. 

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