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crassate, the second narrowly lanceolate, one-half longer; the third 

 a little longer than the second, slender, the fourth a little longer than 

 the third. Mesonotum dark brown, the submedian lines thickly 

 haired. Scutellum reddish brown, postscutellum fuscous yellowish. 

 Abdomen dark brown, the incisures and pleurae yellowish red, the 

 segments sparsely haired posteriorly; genitalia fuscous. Wings 

 hyaline, costa dark brown. Halteres yellowish basally, pale orange 

 apically, fuscous subapically. Coxae fuscous yellowish; femora and 

 tibiae mostly fuscous yellowish; tarsi dark brown; claws long, rather 

 stout, strongly curved, the pul villi shorter than the claws. Genitalia; 

 dorsal plate short, broad, deeply and narrowly emarginate, the lobes 

 broadly rounded. 



Female. Length 2 mm. Antennae extending to the fourth abdom- 

 inal segment, sparsely haired, fuscous yellowish, yellowish basally; 

 14 segments, the fifth with a length three and one-half times its 

 diameter; subapically a few scattering setae; irregular, high, un- 

 usually thick, irregularly anastomosing circumfili near the basal 

 third and apically (figure 33); terminal segment somewhat reduced, 



a b 



Fig. 33 Cincticornia simpla. Fifth (a) and distal (b antennal 

 segments of female, enlarged (original) 



with a length three times its diameter, the apical fourth constricted, 

 narrowly rounded; claws stout, irregularly curved, the pul villi 

 shorter than the claws. Ovipositor about two-thirds the length of 

 the abdomen. Otherwise nearly as in the male. Type Cecid. ai78od, 

 aic-42, ai947. 



Cincticornia podagrae Felt 

 1909 Felt, E. P. Econ. Ent. Jour., 2:291 



This species was reared in small numbers in April 1908 from a 

 narrow, fusiform vein swelling on the leaves of the yellow-barked 

 or black oak, Quercus velutina, collected by Miss Cora H. 

 Clarke at Magnolia, Mass., in October 1908. 



