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Winnertzia ampelophila Felt 



1907 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. no, p. 144 (separate, p. 48) 

 (Porricondyla) 



1908 N. Y. wState Mus. Bui. 124, p. 422 



The midge was taken at Albany, N. Y., on Virginia creeper, 

 Psedera quinquefolia, July 3, 1906. The wing is illus- 

 trated on plate 4, fig. 11. 



Male. Length 1.5 mm. Antennae a little shorter than the bod)'-; 

 sparsely haired, dark brown, fuscous yellowish basally; 14 segments, 

 the fifth with a stem one-third the /length of s the cylindric basal 

 enlargement, which latter has a length twice its diameter; the two 



Fig. 3 Winnertzia ampelophila; sixth antennal segment of male, enlarged 

 (original) 



distal segments rather closely fused, both with the basal portion 

 slightly produced and no distal stem. Palpi; the first segment 

 short, subquadrate, the second more than twice its length, slightly 

 dilated near the middle, the third a little longer, more slender, the 

 fourth about twice the length of the third, more slender. Face 

 fuscous yellowish. Mesonotum nearly uniform dark brown. Scutcl- 

 lum dark reddish brown, postscutellum dark brown. Abdomen 

 dark yellowish brown with yellowish on the dorsum of the fourth 

 segment, sparsely clothed with dark hairs. Wings subhyalinc, 

 costa dark brown. Halteres yellowish transparent. Legs pale 

 fuscous yellowish, tarsi slightly darker; claws short, stout, slightly 

 curved. Genitalia; basal clasp segment short, very broad, truncate; 

 terminal clasp segment short, very stcut, the internal distal angle 

 with a long, stout, spine. Dorsal plate apparently very broad, 

 slightly emarginate; ventral plate long, broad, deeply and narrowly 

 emarginate, the lobes narrowly rounded; style long, slender. Type 

 Cecid. 450. 



