no. 2072. NEW SPECIES OF GALL MIDGES— FELT. 203 



third, capitate. Eyes black, coarsely granulate. Mesonotum shin- 

 ing dark brown, the submedian lines and posterior median area 

 sparsely haired and fuscous yellowish. Scutellum whitish, post- 

 scutellum yellowish orange. Abdomen rather thickly haired, dark 

 reddish brown, the ovipositor fuscous orange. Wings hyaline, 

 costa dark brown, the third vein uniting with the margin well beyond 

 the apex, the fifth at the distal fourth, its branch near the basal half. 

 Halteres yellowish transparent. Coxae and femora b as ally yellowish 

 brown, the distal portion of femora, tibiae and the most of tarsi dark 

 reddish brown, the distal tarsal segments, in some instances, por- 

 tions of the fourth also, silvery white or yellowish white. Claws 

 stout, strongly curved, simple, the pulvilli longer than the claws. 

 Ovipositor longer than the body, the distal part aciculate as in 

 Asphondylia. Type Cecid. 1525, C. 1528. 



This beautiful species was collected by August Busck in the San 

 Francisco Mountains, Santo Domingo, West Indies, September, 1905. 



Type.— Cat. No. 18487, U.S.N.M. 



PROASPHONDYLIA, new genus. 



Antennal segments 14, subsessile, the distal segment not reduced 

 (presumably not in the female) ; the circumfili much as in Schizomyia. 

 The palpi are triarticulate. The ovipositor relatively short, the 

 distal portion being subaciculate. The male genitalia with the 

 terminal clasp segment subapical, short, stout, pectinate apically. 



Type of the genus. — Proasphondylia brasiliensis, new species. 



This genus approaches Parasphondylia Kieffer, from which it is 

 easily separated by the triarticulate palpi and is closely related to 

 Feltomyia Kieffer, though it is quite different from the latter, espe- 

 cially in the development of the ovipositor. We have in this genus 

 an approach to the characters found in the American Cincticornia. 

 It is a peculiar synthetic type. 



PROASPHONDYLIA BRASILIENSIS, new species. 



Male. — Length, 1.2 mm. Antennae nearly as long as the body, 

 sparsely haired, light brown; 14 subsessile segments, the third and 

 fourth narrowly fused, the fifth with a stem one-fourth the length 

 of the cylindric basal enlargement, which latter has a length 2| 

 times its diameter and is provided with rather high, irregular cir- 

 cumfili, much as in Schizomyia; terminal segment slightly reduced, 

 with a length three times its diameter and tapering gradually to a 

 narrowly rounded apex. Palpi; first segment short, irregular, the 

 second with a length about three times its diameter, the third nearly 

 three times the length of the second, dilated. Mesonotum reddish 

 brown, the submedian lines whitish. Scutellum fuscous yellowish, 

 the postscutellum and abdomen yellowish brown. Wings hyaline; 



