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claws. Ovipositor about two-thirds the length of the abdomen, the 

 terminal lobes very long, slender, narrowly rounded. Type Cecid. 

 ai647. 



Rhopalomyia asteriflorae Felt 



1907 Felt, E. P. New Species of Cecidomyiidae II, p. 17-18 



1908 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 298, 366 



This species was reared at Albany, N. Y., from stunted, abnormally 

 bunched heads of Aster paniculata. Two females were 

 obtained September 25, 1907 and despite careful examination of the 

 material in the breeding jar, nothing was found to indicate the part 

 from which the insects emerged. Torymus species was reared 

 apparently from this gall. 



Female. Length 2.5 mm. Antennae extending to the third 

 abdominal segment, sparsely haired, pale fuscous yellowish; 19 seg- 

 ments, the fifth subsessile, with a length about two and one-half 

 times its diameter; terminal segment partly fused with the preceding, 

 greatly prolonged, tapering, obtuse. Palpi; one long, irregularly 

 fusiform segment with a length about twice its diameter. Mesono- 

 tum dark brown, the submedian lines sparsely haired. Scutellum 

 dark brown with numerous coarse setae apically, post scutellum fus- 

 cous orange. Abdomen reddish brown, the incisures and pleurae 

 dark orange, ventral sclerites dark brown. Ovipositor fuscous yel- 

 lowish. Wings hyaline, costa dark brown; halteres pale yellowish 

 basally, fuscous apically. Coxae and base of femora fuscous yel- 

 lowish, the distal portion of femora, tibiae and tarsi fuscous; claws 

 rather long, slender, strongly curved, the pulvilli as long as the 

 claws, the ovipositor probably as long as the body, the terminal 

 lobes long, broad, narrowly rounded. Type Cecid. ai7 57. 



Rhopalomyia bigelovioides Felt 

 1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 365, 367 

 This species was reared by D. W. Coquillett in February from 

 galls on Bigelowia taken at Los Angeles, Cal. 



Gall. The gall on the pin bearing one of the spocimens is nearly 

 1 cm long, .4 cm in diameter, irregularly oval and evidently a de- 

 formed seed. 



Male. Length 2.5 mm. Antennae extending to the third ab- 

 dominal segment, sparsely haired, light brown; 17 segments, the 

 fifth with a stem one-third the length of the basal enlargement, which 

 latter has a length one-half greater than its diameter and tapsrs 

 slightly at both extremities; terminal segment prolonged, with a 

 length nearly four times its diameter, tapering, obtuse. Palpi; 

 one stout segment with a length over four times its diameter, tapering, 

 acute. Genitalia; basal and terminal clavp segments long, stout; 

 ventral plate long, narrow, deeply and triangularly emarginate; 

 harpes broad, convolute, irregularly rounded. Color and other 

 characters nearly as in the female. 



