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a 



light brown; claws long, stout, strongly curved, the pul villi nearly 

 as long as the claws. Ovipositor nearly as long as the abdomen. 

 Cecid. 864. 



Asphondylia neomexicana Ckll. 

 1896 Cockerell, T. D. A. N. Y. Ent. Soc. Jour., 4:204 (Cecidomyia) 



This species was taken by Professor 

 Cockerell in the Organ mountains, New 

 Mexico, at an elevation of 5100 feet and 

 was also common on Tularosa creek. The 

 adult, he states, resembled A. a t r i p 1 i- 

 c i s Twns. though the gall is quite 

 different. There is an excellent series 

 of galls in the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. It may prove 

 identical with the preceding species. 



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Fig. 22 Asphondylia 

 neomexicana. Gall; 

 a, section; b, external 

 aspect (original) 



Asphondylia sambuci Felt 

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



This female was reared from a greenish white bud gall apparently 

 on elder, Sambucus, sent to this office June 10, 1907 by Miss E. G. 

 Mitchell of Washington, D. C. 



Gall. This gall is irregularly subglobular, 

 about 1.5 cm in diameter, green, hoary white 

 with three thickened, projecting green bracts, 

 each subtriangular in shape and about 1.5 cm 

 long. 



Female. Length 4.2 mm. Antennae nearly as 

 long as the body, sparsely haired, dark brown, 

 the basal segments yellowish; 14 segments, the 

 third with a length fully five times its diameter. 

 Palpi; the first segment short, stout, subquad- 

 rate, the second stout, with a length fully four 

 times its diameter, the third one-half longer than 

 the second, tapering at both extremities; face 

 silvery between the antennae, whitish beneath, 

 a tuft of black hairs at the middle. Mesono- 

 tum dark brown, cinereous, with the submedian 

 lines sparsely clothed with pale hairs; laterally F - A so h on- 



similar hairs margin the mesonotum. Scutellum 

 dark reddish. Abdomen a uniform dark brown, 

 the segments margined posteriorly with a thin 

 row of fuscous hairs; laterally and ventrally 

 hoary. Wings hyaline, costa dark brown ; halteres 



dylia sam- 

 buci. Gall nearly 

 natural size (ori- 

 ginal) 



