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long - , slender, deeply and roundly emarginate. Harpes stout, irreg- 

 ular apically; style stout. 



Female. Length 1.25 mm. Antennae extending to the third 

 abdominal segment, thickly haired, dark brown; 15 segments, the 

 fifth with a length one-half greater than its diameter, the terminal 

 segment greatly produced, with a length four times its diameter, 

 broadly rounded apically. Ovipositor about as long as the abdomen, 

 the lobes slender, with a length four times the width, narrowly 

 rounded. Type Cecid. 1245. 



Rhabdophaga marginata Felt 

 1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 352 

 This brown female was taken on choke cherry, P r u n u s 

 v i r g i n i a n a, at Albany, N. Y., May 23, 1906 



Female. Length 2.5 mm. Antennae extending to the base of the 

 abdomen, sparsely haired, dark brown; 17 segments, the fifth sub- 



Fig. 15 Rhabdophaga marginata, ovipositor 

 enlarged, the tip more enlarged (original) 



sessile, subcylindric; terminal segment much prolonged, nearly twice 

 the length of the preceding. Palpi; the first segment subquadrate, 

 slightly swollen distally, the second one-half longer, suboval the 

 third one-fourth longer than the second, slender, slightly swollen 

 distally, the fourth nearly twice the length of the third slender 

 Mesonotum brown with apparently three rows of lorn? hairs coal- 

 escing at the scutellum, which latter is covered with the same 

 Scutellum and postscutellum dark brown. Abdomen brown the 

 segments margined posteriorly with pale hairs: Win-s hyaline 

 costa light brown. Legs pale, claws slender, strongly curved' 

 Ovipositor nearly as long as the body; distal lobes long, slender' 

 tapering. Type Cecid. 81. s ' 



