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dark brown, yellowish basally. Legs a uniform black with the excep- 

 tion of the basal third of the femora; coxae yellowish dusted with 

 plumbeus, the first pair thickly clothed anteriorly with long, black 

 hairs; pleurae a little darker than the coxae; claws long, stout, 

 strongly curved, the pul villi longer than the claws. Ovipositor 

 about as long as the abdomen. Type Cecid. ai5n. 



Asphondylia diplaci Felt 

 1912 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Ent. Soc. Jour., 20:151-52 



The midges were obtained by P. H. Timberlake from a cabbage- 

 like, densely woolly apical gall on Diplacuslongiflorus 

 collected at Whittier, Cal. 



Asphondylia diervillae Felt 



1897 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 110:165 



1908 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124:377 



1910 Stebbins, F. A. Springf. Mus. Nat. Hist. Bui. 2:48 (C e c i d o m y i a 

 inaequajis Steb.) 



This medium-sized, dark-brown species infests the unopened 

 buds of bush honeysuckle, Diervilla trifida. The first 

 galls were taken at Albany, N. Y., May 27, 1907 and adults con- 

 tinued to emerge from that time until June 15. 



Gall. Length 9 mm, diameter 3 mm, green, the slender tips some- 

 times discolored. 



Larva. Length 4 mm, stout, pale yellowish, the head small; 

 antennae short, conical; breastbone quadridentate, inner teeth 

 decidedly shorter than the outer and well divided (figure 24). The 



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Fig. 24 Asphondylia diervillae. a, larval breastbone; b, posterior 

 extremity of larva, enlarged (original) 



