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mesonotum dark brown. Abdomen reddish brown, incisures orange 

 brown. Wings hyaline, larger veins brown. Halteres yellowish 

 transparent. Legs yellow with reddish tints. Tibiae apically, and 

 tarsi fuscous; claws stout, slightly curved. Genitalia; basal clasp 

 segment very broad ; terminal clasp segment slightly swollen basally ; 

 dorsal plate broad, deeply incised; ventral plate broad, deeply and 

 roundly emarginate. Harpes broadly rounded. (Plate 17, figure 7.) 

 Type Cecid. 10. 



Janetiella americana Felt 



• 1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 372 



The fuscous yellowish male was taken on willow, Salix, at Albany, 

 N. Y., July 17, 1906. 



Male. Length 2 mm. Antennae as long as the body, sparsely 

 haired, light brown, yellowish basally; 14 segments, the fifth with a 

 stem three-fourths the length of the basal enlargement, which latter 

 has a length twice its diameter; terminal segment slightly produced, 

 tapering. Palpi; first segment orbicular, second with a length 

 three times its width, the third one-third longer than the second, 

 more slender, the fourth longer and more slender than the third. 

 Face fuscous yellowish. Mesonotum dark brown, the submedian 

 lines indistinct. Scutellum fuscous yellowish, postscutellum deep 

 red. Abdomen sparsely haired, dull fuscous yellowish; genitalia 

 brown. Costa dark brown. Halteres whitish basally, reddish 

 fuscous apically. Legs a nearly uniform pale straw, the tarsi 

 variably tinged with carmine. Claws slender, evenly curved, the 

 pulvilli as long as the claws. Genitalia; basal clasp segment short, 

 stout, terminal clasp segment short, swollen basally; dorsal plate 

 short, broad, broadly and angularly emarginate; ventral plate short, 

 deeply and roundly emarginate. Harpes long, slender, minutely 

 dentate. Type Cecid. 616. 



Janetiella coloradensis Felt 



1912 Felt, E. P. N. Y. Ent. Soc. Jour., 20:148-49 



This species was reared from oval swellings at the base of pine 

 needles by Prof. E. Bethel, Denver, Col. 



Janetiella asplenifolia Felt 



1907 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. no, p. 159-60 



1908 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 372 



This species was collected and reared by the late Dr M. T. Thomp- 

 son of Worcester, Mass., from a fleshy fold or lamina near the mid- 

 vein on the leaves of sweet fern, Myrica asplenifolia. 

 This gall was also taken by Miss Cora H. Clarke at Magnolia, Mass., 

 July 27, 1908. 



