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Palpi; one irregularly fusiform segment with a length about two 

 and one-half times its diameter. Mesonotum shining dark brown, 

 the submedian lines sparsely haired. Scutellum dark red, post- 

 scutellum fuscous. Abdomen dull red, the small dorsal sclerites 

 somewhat fuscous, membrane and pleurae deep reddish orange, 

 ovipositor fuscous yellowish. • Wings hyaline, cost a fuscous straw. 

 Halteres yellowish basally, fuscous subapically, dull orange apically. 

 Legs a variable fuscous yellowish. Ovipositor as long as the ab- 

 domen, the terminal lobes long, stout, narrowly rounded. Otherwise 

 practically as in the male. Type Cecid. ai634. 



Rhopalomyia Carolina Felt 



1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 363 

 1909 — Ottawa Nat., 22: 247 



This species was reared from large, loose, leafy heads on Soli- 

 dago canadensis taken at Asheville, N. C, September 17, 

 1906, the adult appearing October 5th. 



Gall. The deformed head produced by this species is about 

 11 cm in diameter and 3 cm high. It is composed of a number 

 of smaller heads united in one large bunch. The free edges of 

 many of the leaves project above the more solid mass by half to 

 three-fourths of their length. 



Female. Length 6 mm. Antennae extending to the second 

 abdominal segment, sparsely haired, dark red; 24 to 25 segments, 



Pig. 54. Rhopalomyia Carolina; two antenna! segments, showing a 

 rudimentary one at the base of the lower, and palpus enlarged (original) 



