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pleurae thickly clothed with silvery white scales. Scutellum thickly 



covered with pale yellowish scales. Abdomen thickly covered 

 dorsally with silvery scales, except the naked, dark brown terminal 

 segment; ventral surface uniform dark brown. Wings (pi. 6, fig. 9) 

 subhyaline, costa dark brown, the third vein uniting with the costa 

 at the distal fifth; halteres light fuscous basally, whitish transparent 

 apically, club greatly enlarged. Coxae fuscous, femora mostly a 

 pale fuscous orange, narrowly annulate with fuscous distally, tibiae 

 dark fuscous orange, narrowly marked with fuscous distally, tarsi 

 nearly uniform dark brown; claws stout, evenly curved. Genitalia; 

 basal clasp segment stout; terminal clasp segment stout, slightly 

 swollen basally; dorsal plate broad, deeply and triangularly 

 emarginate; ventral plate narrow, deeply and narrowly incised. 

 Harpes long, slender, subacute. Type Cecid. 466. 



Trotteria tarsata Felt 

 [908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 335 



The male was taken at Albany, N. Y., July 24, 1906 on scrub 

 oak, Quercus ilicifoliaor Q. prinoides. 



Male. Length 2 mm. Antennae dark brown; 20 segments, the 

 first with a length fully three times its diameter, the fifth with a 

 length about half its diameter; terminal segment prolonged, about 

 twice the length of the preceding, the distal fourth obconic. Palpi; 

 first segment subquadrate, the second a little longer, narrowly 

 oval, the third longer, move slender than the second, the fourth 

 longer than the third, more slender. Mesonotum dark brown, 

 thickly clothed with silvery, yellowish scales. Scutellum thickly 

 clothed with similar scales. Abdomen nearly uniformly and thickly 

 clothed with silvery, yellowish scales; terminal segments fuscous. 

 Wings (pi. 6, fig. 10) hyaline, costa dark brown, the third vein 

 uniting with costa at the distal fourth. Halteres yellowish trans- 

 parent. Coxae and femora pale yellowish, tibiae and tarsi mostly 

 black, the distal tarsal segment with silvery reflections. Claws 

 rather stout, evenly curved. Genitalia (pi. 8, fig. 4); basal clasp 

 segment long, stout; terminal clasp segment stout; dorsal plate 

 broad, deeply and narrowly incised; ventral plate narrow, deeply 

 and narrowly incised. Harpes long, swollen at the base, slender, 

 the apex minutely dentate. Type Cecid. 667. 



Trotteria metallica Felt 



1907 Felt, E. P. X. Y. State Mus. Bui. no, p. 106 (Lasioptera 



c a r y a e) 

 1908 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 335 



This species was taken on hickory, Carya species, at Albany, 

 X. Y., June 19, 1906. 



Male. Length 2 mm. Antennae brown; 20 segments, the first 

 with a length four times its diameter, the fifth with a length three- 



