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dark brown; halteres yellowish basally, fuscous apically. Coxae 

 yellowish brown; femora, tibiae and tarsi dark brown, the tibiae 

 slightly darker; claws long, somewhat slender, strongly curved, the 

 pulvilli as long as the claws. Ovipositor about as long as the abdomen. 

 Cecid. 870. 



Asphondylia vernoniae Felt 

 1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mas. Bui. 124:377 



This insect was reared October 12, 1884 from galls collected in 

 Virginia by Mr Theodore Pergande onVernonia novebora- 

 c e n s i s. Females associated with this male were taken by Mr Per- 

 gande on the same plant September 21, 1885, adults issuing the 

 following May and June. 



Male'. Length 3 mm. Antennae about as long as the body, 

 thickly short haired, yellowish brown; 14 segments, the third with 

 a length about four times its diameter. Palpi; the first segment 

 short, stout, subglobose, the second a little longer, broadly oval, 

 the third more than twice the preceding and tapering at both extrem- 

 ities. Mesonotum dark reddish brown, the submedian lines yellowish 

 brown, thickly haired. Scutellum fuscous orange, postscutellum 

 fuscous yellowish. Abdomen rather thickly clothed with yellowish 

 hairs, brown. Wings hyaline, costa light brown; halteres yellowish 

 basally and apically, reddish brown subapically. Coxae reddish 

 brown, the femora, tibiae and tarsi mostly dark brown, the two distal 

 tarsal segments of the middle legs at least yellowish brown and on 

 the posterior legs, the tibiae, the first, second and base of the third 

 tarsal segments yellowish; claws long, slender, strongly curved, the 

 pulvilli as long as the claws. Genitalia; dorsal" plate long, broad, 

 deeply and narrowly incised, the lobes long and narrowly rounded. 



Female. Length 3 mm. Antennae yellowish brown; 14 segments, 

 the third with a length about five times its diameter; claws long, 

 stout, strongly curved, the pulvilli nearly as long as the claws. 

 Ovipositor a little longer than the body, otherwise nearly as in the 

 male. Type Cecid. 867. 



Asphondylia ceanothi Felt 

 1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124:377 



The gall of this species was taken on Ceanothus 

 velutinus in May 1888 at Oakland, Cal., by A. Kosbele, 

 adults issuing in June. The species was evidently reared from a 

 large, rather loose terminal bud gall some 2 cm in length and 1 . 5 cm 

 in diameter. The deformity is thickly clothed with long, linear, 

 haired leaflets. 



Female. Length 4.5 mm. Antennae extending to the fourth 

 abdominal segment, sparsely fine haired, dark brown; 14 segments, 

 the third with a length about six times its diameter. Palpi; the 



