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yellowish brown, rather thickly clothed with long, fuscous hairs. 

 Wings subhyaline, costa dark brown; halteres yellowish transparent 

 at base, fuscous, apically. Legs brownish black, the femoro-tibio 



Fig. 56 Rhopalomyia major; fifth antennal segment of male, enlarged 



(original) 



articulation tinged with reddish, tarsi dark brown; claws stout, 

 slightly curved. Genitalia; basal clasp segment stout; terminal clasp 

 segment very stout, short; dorsal plate broad, the lobes broadly 

 rounded apically, obliquely truncate; ventral plate broad, deeply 

 and roundly emarginate. Harpes strongly chitinized internally, 

 with two heavy, chitinous bars, converging at each extremity, 

 broadly rounded. (Plate 19, figure 1). Type Cecid. 90. 



Rhopalomyia hirtipes O. S. 



1862 Osten Sacken, C. R. Mon. Dipt. N. Amer. 1: 195 (Cecidomyia) 



1905 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 97, p. 410-11 



1908 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 363 



1909 Ottawa Nat., 22: 249 



1910 Stebbins, F. A. Springf. Mus. Nat. Hist. Bui. 2, p. 52 



1913 Beutenmuller, William. Canad. Ent., 45:413-14 (Dasyneura) 



The species has been accounted somewhat rare in New York 

 State though observations in September 1900 showed that under 



