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Female. Length 3.5 mm. Antennae 

 extending to the second abdominal 

 segment, sparsely haired, yellowish 

 brown; 21 subsessile segments, the 

 fifth with a length twice its diameter; 

 cylindric; terminal segment slightly 

 reduced, broadly oval. Palpi; the 

 first segment irregular, incrassate, the 

 second segment with a length four 

 times its diameter, fusiform. Meso- 

 notum dull brown, the submedian Fi S- 96 SackenomyU 

 lines sparsely haired. Scutellum and packardi; palpus of fe- 



postscutellum reddish brown. Ab- male - enlarged (original) 



domen mostly deep red, the segments variably margined with 

 fuscous posteriorly, the seventh and eighth segments inflated, 

 fuscous yellowish; ovipositor dull orange distally. Legs mostly 



Fig- 97 Sackenomyia packardi; apex of abdomen with tip more 

 enlarged, enlarged^, (original) ^ , ^ ^ j 



a dull black. Ovipositor about one-third the length of the abdomen, 

 the terminal portion heavily chitinized, cul triform. Type ^Cecid. 

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Walshomyia Felt 



1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. vState Mus. Bui. 124, p. 359-60 



1910 Rubsaamen, E. H. Zeitsch. Wissenschaft. Insektenbiol., 15: 337 



191 1 Felt, E. P. N. Y. Ent. Soc. Jour., 19: 47 

 1913 Kieffer, J. J. Gen. Insect., fasc. 152, p. 43 



The genus is a connecting link between Rhopalomyia and Rhab- 

 dophaga. There are 18 or 19 antennal segments, those of the male 

 distinctly stalked, with but one palpal segment and simple claws. 

 It is separated from the former by the terminal clasp segment of 



