no. 2072. 



NEW SPECIES OF GALL MIDGES— FELT. 



209 



Female. — Length, 6 mm. Antennae nearly as long as the body, 

 thickly haired, light brown ;(?) 14 segments, the fifth with a stem 

 one-fourth the length of the cylindric 

 basal enlargement, which latter has a 

 length fully four times its diameter and 

 with a slight constriction near the basal 

 third. There is a sparse subbasal whorl 

 of moderately stout setae and a thicker 

 subapical whorl. Low circumfili, slightly 

 looped, occur near the basal half and 

 apicallyon the enlargement. Palpi; the 

 first segment subglobose, the second a 

 little smaller, globose, the third short, 

 irregular, with a length twice its diame- 

 ter, the fourth three-fourths the length 

 of the third, ovate. Mesonotum yellow- 

 ish brown, the submedian lines sparsely 

 haired. Scutellum and postscutellum 

 concolorous. Abdomen thickly haired, 

 a rich dark brown, the ovipositor yel- 

 lowish. Wings subhyaline, the mem- 

 brane rather thickly clothed with fuscous 

 hairs; costa dark brown, the third vein 

 uniting with the margin well beyond the apex, the fifth simple, 

 strongly curved near the middle of the wing and joining the posterior 

 margin at the distal third. Halteres yellowish basally, dark brown 

 apically. Coxae yellowish brown ; femora, tibiae, and tarsi dark yellow- 

 ish brown and rather thickly 



Fig. 13.— Fifth antennal segment 

 of the female of eohormomyia 



HOWARDI. 



Fig. 14.— Dorsal view of the apex of the female 

 abdomen of eohormomyia howardi. 



clothed with fuscous hairs, 

 the distal tarsal segments 

 somewhat lighter; the pul- 

 villi as long as the stout, 

 evenly curved, simple claws. 

 Ovipositor short, yellowish, 

 the lobes tapering to a nar- 

 rowly rounded setose apex, 

 minor lobes triangular, with 

 a narrowly rounded apex. 

 TypeCecid. 1523. 



Type.— Cat, No. 18492, 

 U.S.N.M. 



SCOPODIPLOSIS, new genus. 



This form is allied to the African Compsodiplosis Tavares, from 

 which it is most easily separated by the spotted wings, the nearly 



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