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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Dirhiza photophila Felt 

 1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 420 

 A female was taken May 17, 1906 in a trap lantern at Nassau, 



N. Y. 



Female. Length 3 mm. Antennae shorter than the body, sparsely 

 haired, fuscous yellow, basally yellow; at least 17 segments, the 

 fifth with a stem one-fourth the length of the subcylindric basal 

 enlargement, which latter has a length thrice its diameter. Palpi ; 

 the first segment short, subquadrate, slightly swollen at the distal 

 third, the second very long, the basal third slightly narrower than 

 the enlarged distal portion, the third a little longer than the second, 

 more slender and the fourth one-fourth longer than the third; face 

 yellowish. Mesonotum yellowish with median and sublateral areas 

 brownish, submedian lines sparsely clothed with pale hairs. Scutel- 

 lum and postscutellum reddish brown. Abdomen yellowish. Wings 

 hyaline, cost a light brown; halteres yellowish transparent. Legs 

 yellowish transparent, rather thickly clothed with reddish hairs, 



Fig- 35 Dirhiza photophila; lateral view of abdomen and ovipositor, 

 enlarged (original) 



tarsi missing; claws probably unidentate. Ovipositor two-thirds 

 the length of the body, the terminal lobes suboval. Type Cecid. 45. 



Dirhiza montana Felt 

 1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 420 

 This species, received through the courtesy of the United States 

 National Museum, was taken in the White mountains by Morrison. 



Female. Length 3 mm. Antennae extending to the fifth abdom- 

 inal segment, rather thickly haired, light fuscous yellowish; 25 

 segments, the fifth with a stem one-fourth the length of the basal 

 enlargement, which latter has a length two and one-half times its 

 diameter; terminal segment produced, with a length four limes its 

 diameter and tapering to a narrowly rounded apex.. Palpi; first 

 segment stout, with a Length two and one-half times its diameter, 

 the second one-half longer, slender, the 4 third one-fonrth longer than 



the second, the fourth about, as long as the third. Mesonotum and 

 sentellmn reddish brown, postscutellum yellowish. Abdomen light 



