REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST I914 



259 



Rhopalomyia truncata Felt 

 1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 365 



This species was taken at Los Angeles, Cal., by Mr D. W- 

 Coquillett. It is numbered 162. 



Male. Length 2.25 mm. Antennae extending to the fourth 

 abdominal segment, thickly haired, fuscous yellowish; 18 segments, 

 the fifth with a stem three-fourths the length of the basal enlarge- 

 ment, which latter has a length one-half greater than its diameter; 

 terminal segment reduced, narrowly oval. Palpi; one short, rather 

 slender segment having a length about twice its diameter. Thorax 

 and abdomen a nearly uniform dark brown. Mesonotum and 

 scutellum a nearly uniform dark reddish brown, the latter with a 

 few coarse setae apically, postscutellum and abdomen a nearly 

 uniform dark reddish brown, the latter thickly clothed with long, 

 yellowish setae. Wings hyaline, costa light brown. Halteres 

 yellowish basally, fuscous apically. Legs pale yellowish straw; 

 claws long, slender, evenly curved, the pul villi longer than the claws. 

 Genitalia; basal and terminal clasp segments short, stout; dorsal 

 plate long, broad, deeply and triangularly emarginate; ventral 

 plate long, broad, broadly and slightly emarginate. Harpes short, 

 stout, convolute, obliquely truncate. Type Cecid. 1050. 



Rhopalomyia astericaulis Felt 



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



1908 — — N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 365 



This species was reared by the late Dr M. T. Thompson of Clark 

 University, Worcester, Mass., from an oval, twig gall on aster. 

 A specimen was secured at Wood's Holl, Mass., the flies issuing 



Fig. 72 Rhopalomyia astericaulis; fifth antennal segment of male, 



enlarged (original) 



