REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST I915 



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were collected at Georgiana, Fla., by Mr William Wittfeld. They 

 were received by the division of entomology June 25, 1883, adults 

 issuing in March 1884. 



Male. Length 2 mm. Antennae shorter than the body, thickly 

 haired, light brown; 14 segments, the third with a length about two 

 and one-half times its diameter. Palpi; the first segment short, stout, 

 subquadrate, the second one-half longer, slender, the third a little 

 longer and more slender than the second, the fourth about two and 

 one-half times the length of the third, strongly flattened. Mesonotum 

 reddish brown, the base of the wings and the anterior lateral angles 

 yellowish, the submedian lines rather 

 thickly clothed with yellowish brown 

 hairs. Scutellum light yellowish 

 brown, postscutellum a little lighter. 

 Abdomen mostly yellowish brown; 

 genitalia reddish brown, the segments 

 rather sparsely margined posteriorly 

 with long, yellowish hair, this being 

 most abundant on the eighth segment. 

 Wings hyaline, costa light brown. 

 Halteres yellowish basally, fuscous 

 apically. Coxae and base of femora 

 light yellowish brown, the other 

 portion of the legs a variable reddish 

 brown; claws long, slender, evenly 

 curved, the pulvilli almost rudimen- 

 tary. Genitalia; dorsal plate long, 

 broad, deeply and narrowly incised, 

 the lobes roundly tapering; ventral 

 plate long, stout, tapering, deeply 

 and roundly emarginate, the lobes 

 short, obtuse. 



Female. Length 2.5 mm. Anten- 

 nae extending to the fourth abdom- Fi S- 7 Schizomyia cory- 

 inal segment, thickly fine haired, light loides. Fifth and sixth an- 

 reddish brown, the basal segments tennal segments of female, 

 yellowish; 14 segments, the third enlarged (original) 

 with a length about five times its 



diameter. Palpi; the first segment stout, swollen, narrowly oval, the 

 second one-half longer, more slender, the third a little longer and more 

 slender than the second and the fourth about as long as the third, 

 strongly flattened; face yellowish. Ovipositor yellowish orange, about 

 as long as the body. Otherwise nearly as in the male. Cecid. 874. 



Schizomyia pomum Walsh & Riley 



Grape apple gall 



1869 Walsh, B. D., & Riley, C. V. Am. Ent., 1:106 (Cecidomyia 

 vitis-pomum) 



1869 Packard, A. S. Guide for the Study of Ins., p. 378 (Cecidomyia) 



