NO. 2072. 



NEW SPECIES OF GALL MIDGES— FELT. 



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OXASPHONDYLIA RETICULATA, new species. 



The midge described below was labeled June 27, Cacao, Trece 

 Aguas, Alta V. Paz., Guatemala, Schwarz and Barber collection. 

 Only the female is known. 



Female. — Length, 2.5 mm. Antennae extending to the third abdom- 

 inal segment, thickly haired, brownish yellow; 14 segments, the 



Fig. 7. — Fifth antennal segment, female, of 

 oxasphondylia beticulata. 



Fig. 8.— Outline of thirteenth and 

 fourteenth antennal segments of 

 female of oxasphondylia reticulata. 



first broadly conical, with a length only one-fourth greater than its 

 diameter, the second subhemispherical, the third and fourth free, 



the fifth with a length three times 

 its diameter, uniformly and rather 

 thickly clothed with narrow, 

 curved scales, and with a series of 

 sinuous reticulate circumfili ap- 

 proximating the condition found 

 in the male of Schizomyia, there 

 being approximately five sinuous 

 transverse circumfili on each seg- 

 ment; the three distal segments 

 somewhat reduced; the twelfth 

 with a length 2\ times its diameter; the thirteenth with a length 

 twice its diameter, and the fourteenth with a length one-fourth 

 greater than its diameter, apicaily tapering abruptly to a conical 

 apex. Palpi short, the first segment subquadrate, with a length 

 one-fourth greater than its diameter, the second subfusiform, 



Fig. 9.— Outline of the bi articulate palpus 

 of oxasphondylia reticulata. 



