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long, yellowish brown hairs, dark brown, the pleurae and venter 

 thickly clothed with silvery gray hairs. Ovipositor about one-fourth 

 longer than the abdomen. Cecid ai6Q7. 



Asphondylia arizonensis Felt 



1907 Felt, E. P. New Species of Cecidomyiidae II, p. 13 



1908 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124:294, 377 



This large species breeds in fruitlike enlargements of the prickly 

 pear or Cactus. The galls were taken by Mr H. K. Morrison at 

 Fort Grant, Ariz., and were received at the bureau of entomology 

 May 5, 1882 and figured in " Nature " for November 23, 1882, 

 page 77. The figure referred to illustrates a somewhat pear-shaped 

 gall about 16 cm long and 8 cm in diameter. Mr Morrison states 

 that this gall appears to be rare, though the species of Cactus upon 

 which it occurs is abundant. All the galls he observed were on one 

 plant and contained hundreds of larvae May 5th. Pupae had forced 

 their way out, some even penetrating the stout paper in which the 

 galls were wrapped; the living adults were characterized as being 

 dark gray with black eyes, the legs and halteres reddish. Koebele 

 reared this species from seed pods of Cactus at Los Angeles, Cal., 

 in March 1886. Another lot of supposedly the same species was 

 received May 31, 1899 from Bayfield, Col., through C. F. Baker 

 and adults, as in the previous case, issued during transit. 



Gall. The galls are very large and resemble somewhat the fruit 

 of the prickly pear. They are yellowish and in places somewhat rose 

 colored, without thorns, except at the base, very fleshy and decay 

 easily. 



These data have been drafted from the notes of the bureau of 

 entomology kindly placed at our disposal. 



Male. Length 4.5 mm.. Antennae a little longer than the body, 

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

 five times its diameter. Palpi; the first segment with a length two 

 and one-half times its diameter, the second as long as the first, more 

 slender, the third one-half longer than the second. Mesonotum 

 dark brown, nearly naked. Scutellum pale yellowish, postscutellum 

 reddish brown. Abdomen rather thickly clothed with yellowish 

 hairs, light brown, the eighth segment light yellowish. Genitalia 

 fuscous. Wings hyaline, costa light brown. Halteres pale yellowish. 

 Legs yellowish brown, the distal tarsal segments reddish brown; 

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

 Genitalia; dorsal plate broad, broadly and triangularly incised, the 

 lobes sub truncate. 



Female. Length 5 mm. Antennae as long as the body, thickly 

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

 six times its diameter. Palpi; the first segment short, stout, fusiform, 

 the second a little longer, rectangular, the third about twice the 



