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long, dark, scalelike hairs and with a low heavy circumfilum at 

 the basal third and apicad ; twelfth segment with a length about 

 twice its diameter; thirteenth with a length less than one-half 

 greater than its diameter ; fourteenth with a length a very little 

 greater than its diameter. First segment of palpi short, irreg- 

 ular; second stouter with a length about twice its width; third 

 one-half longer, slenderer ; fourth a little longer and more dilated 

 than third. Mesonotum yellowish brown. Scutellum and post- 

 scutellum pale yellowish. Abdomen dark brown, rather thickly 

 clothed with yellowish hairs. Ovipositor when extended nearly 

 as long as body, basal portion yellowish brown, distal part 

 moderately stout, slightly chitinized apicad and with distinct, 

 triangular, sparsely setose lobes. Wings hyaline, third vein 

 uniting with costa just beyond apex, fifth at distal fourth, its 

 branch at basal third. Halteres yellowish, transparent. Coxae 

 pale yellowish. Femora mostly yellowish or yellowish brown. 

 Tibiae and tarsi dark brown. Claws moderately long, slender, 

 evenly curved; pulvilli a little shorter than claws. 



Type. — Cecid. a2848, New York State collection ; part of type 

 material, No. 18313, College of Agriculture, Los Bafios, one 

 pinned specimen and one microscopical slide. 



Luzon, Laguna, Los Baiios, 1917, College of Agriculture ac- 

 cession No. 18313 (Uichanco) , reared from leaf galls on Acalypha 

 stipulacea Klotz. The adults are quite different from those of 

 S. diplodisci Felt in the shorter antennae and decidedly less 

 chitinized condition of the terminal portion of the ovipositor 

 of the female. 



Schizomyia diplodisci sp. nov. 



Male. — Length, 2 millimeters. Antennae a little shorter than 

 body, dark brown, thickly short-haired; 14 segments, fifth sub- 

 sessile, the stem about one-ninth the length of the subcylindric, 

 slightly constricted segment, which has a length over three times 

 its diameter. Circumfila stout, moderately low, the scalelike 

 hairs half the length of the segment, rather thick and unusually 

 stout. Terminal segment slightly produced, basal portion with 

 a length about three and one-half times its diameter and with 

 an irregular globose knob apicad. First segment of palpi irreg- 

 ularly ovate; second with a length three times its width, rather 

 stout; third one-half longer, slenderer; fourth fully one-half 

 longer than third, slenderer. Color as in the female. Genita- 

 lia: Basal clasp segment moderately long, stout, the distal por- 

 tion produced as a narrowly rounded, thickly setose process; 

 terminal clasp segment subapical, short, stout, recurved and 



