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haired. Scutellum reddish brown, postscutellum orange brown. 

 Abdomen dark reddish brown, the distal segments dark orange ; 

 genitalia fuscous. Wings hyaline, costa dark brown. Halteres yel- 

 lowish basally, fuscous apically. Coxae dark brown ; femora basally 

 yellowish, the distal portion of femora, tibiae and tarsi mostly dark 

 brown ; claws slender, strongly curved, the pulvilli a little shorter 

 than the claws. Genitalia ; basal clasp segment long, stout ; terminal 

 clasp segment rather stout, slightly swollen near the middle ; dorsal 

 plate broad deeply and triangularly incised; ventral plate broad, 

 deeply and roundly emarginate ; harpes rather long, slender. 



Female. Length 2 mm. Antennae extending to the third ab- 

 dominal segment, sparsely haired, dark brown, yellowish basally ; 

 16 cylindric segments, the fifth with a length two and one-half times 

 its diameter; terminal segment produced, with a length four times 

 its diameter. Mesonotum dull black. Scutellum fuscous yellowish, 

 postscutellum pale orange. Abdomen dark brown, the incisures 

 and pleurae mostly deep reddish orange. Halteres yellowish basally, 

 fuscous apically ; coxae and femora basally fuscous yellowish. Ovi- 

 positor pale yellowish, as long as the body, the terminal lobes broad, 

 with a length only three times the width. Other characters as in 

 the male. Type Cecid. ai9ii. 



Dasyneura albovittata Walsh 



1864 Walsh, B. D. Ent. Soc. Phila. Proc, 3 1620-23 (Cecidomyia) 

 1895 Comstock, J. H. Manual for the Study of Insects, p. 446 (Cecid- 

 omyia) 



1906 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Mem. 8, 2:746 (Cecidomyia) 

 1908 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 352, 354 



This small inquiline is very common in the familiar terminal 

 pine cone galls of Rhabdophaga strobiloides Walsh. 

 The pale yellowish larvae occur between the bracts of the gall and 

 do not interfere in any way with the development of the species 

 primarily responsible for the gall, though they are usually much 

 more abundant than the larger form. This species was bred very 

 commonly during April from pine cone galls on Salix taken at 

 West Nyack. Walsh states that adults appear from the 10th of 

 April to the Middle of May, a second brood emerging the latter 

 part of July to September nth. This species normally has 16 seg- 

 ments in both sexes, though occasionally specimens of the male may 

 have 15 or 17 segments. The species described below is tentatively 

 identified with the one reared by Walsh. 



Description. The slightly mottled, orange colored larva of this 

 species has a bidentate breastbone and is only about .75 mm in 

 length. 



