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a darker reddish brown, sparsely haired. Wings hyaline with 

 a yellowish cast. Costa yellowish brown. Halteres yellowish, 

 transparent. Coxse reddish yellow. Femora, tibiae, and basal 

 tarsal segments mostly dark brown, distal tarsal segments 

 lighter. Claws moderately long, strongly curved at nearly right 

 angles, swollen distad, simple ; pulvilli a little shorter than claws. 

 Ovipositor short, terminal lobes with a length over four times 

 the width, irregularly rounded apicad and sparsely clothed with 

 long setse. 



Type. — Cecid. a2846. New York State collection. 



Luzon, Laguna, Los Banos Falls, near Los Baiios, 1917, College 

 of Agriculture accession No. 18306 (Uichanco) , reared from leaf 

 galls on Cissus adnata Wall. var. The insect is somewhat larger 

 than the species heretofore referred to this genus, and it is 

 possible that on discovering the male it may be necessary to 

 place this species elsewhere. 



Hyperdiplosis relicta sp. nov. 



Female. — Length, 1.5 millimeters. Antennae about half the 

 length of body, light brown, thickly haired ; ? 14 segments, fifth 

 with a stem three-fourths length of cylindric basal enlargement, 

 which has a length about two and one-half times its diameter. 

 Mouthparts somewhat produced, with a length about one-fourth 

 the vertical diameter of head. First segment of palpi presum- 

 ably short, irregular; second with a length about three times 

 its diameter; third a little longer, slenderer; fourth as long as 

 third, somewhat dilated. Mesonotum reddish brown. Scutel- 

 lum and postscutellum a little lighter, rather thickly haired. 

 Abdomen yellowish brown, thickly haired. Wings hyaline, third 

 vein uniting with costa beyond apex of wing, fifth joining pos- 

 terior margin at distal third, its branch at basal third. Halteres 

 whitish, transparent. Coxae yellowish brown. Legs mostly 

 fuscous straw. Claws moderately long, slender basad, curved 

 almost at right angles, distal portion distinctly swollen and 

 tapering gradually to an acute, slightly recurved apex. Pul- 

 villi about three-fourths the length of basal portion of claw. 

 Ovipositor short, lobes narrowly oval, tapering slightly distad 

 and rather thickly clothed with long setae. 



Type. — Cecid. a2841, New York State collection ; paratype, No. 

 16015, College of Agriculture, Los Baiios. 



Luzon, Manila, 1911, Bureau of Science accession No. 16015 

 (C R. Jones) ; the food plant is not recorded. The claws, in 

 particular, are quite different from those of H. banksi Felt. 



