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brown, the submedian lines thickly clothed with grayish hairs. 

 Scutellum reddish brown, thickly clothed apically with long setae, 

 postscutellum dark salmon. Abdomen dark brown, sparsely clothed 

 with fine hairs, the segments rather thickly margined posteriorly 

 with long setae, eighth segment mostly pale orange, genitalia fuscous ; 

 venter slightly lighter than the dorsum, the pleurae rather thickly 

 clothed with silvery white scales. Wings hyaline, cost a dark brown. 

 Halteres yellowish white basally and apically, brown subapically. 

 Coxae and femora fuscous yellowish, tibiae and tarsi mostly dark 

 brown; claws long, stout, strongly curved, the pulvilli as long as the 

 claws. Genitalia; dorsal plate short, stout, deeply and narrowly 

 incised, the lobes subtriangular, obtuse apically. 



Female. Length 4 mm. Antennae nearly as long as the body, 

 thickly short haired, a variable fuscous yellowish, the extremities of 

 the segments slightly darker; 14 segments, the third with a length 

 fully five times its diameter. Palpi; the first segment long, stout, 

 with a length two and one-half times its diameter, the second about 

 twice the length of the first, more slender, tapering; face fuscous 

 yellowish. Mesonotum a bronzy gray, laterally and anteriorly 

 variably margined by dark brown, the submedian lines thickly 

 clothed with long, grayish setae. Scutellum dark brown with numer- 

 ous gray setae apically, postscutellum a deep salmon. Abdomen 

 dark brown, thickly clothed with long, whitish hairs, the incisures 

 deep salmon; pleurae rather thickly clothed with silvery white hairs, 

 ventral sclerites dark brown, rather thickly clothed with short, 

 white hairs and margined posteriorly with longer, yellowish hairs. 

 Ovipositor about as long as the body. Type Cecid. ai48i. 



Asphondylia helianthiflorae Felt 

 1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui., 124:376 



The midge was reared during August and September 1907 from 

 apparently unmodified flower heads of Helianthus stru- 

 m o s u s taken at Highland, N. Y. It is much smaller than A. 

 conspicua 0. S. and distinctly smaller than A. globulus 

 O. S. 



Larva. Length 3 mm, slender, pale yellowish; head small. 

 Antennae short, stout, conical ; breastbone quadridentate ; the inner 

 teeth very small, separated by a round emargination, the outer teeth 

 long, stout, conical. The heavy chitinized area extends to the 

 anterior third, the shaft slender, irregularly chitinized and with 

 an indistinct crescentic chitinized area posteriorly, the anterior 

 two-thirds of the breastbone supported by irregular, faintly chitinized 

 areas, similar though smaller areas occurring on the preceding seg- 

 ment; skin finely papillate. Posterior segment slender, slightly 

 bilobed. 



