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sparse yellowish hairs. Abdomen pale fuscous yellowish, terminal 

 segment and ovipositor dark brown or black. Wings hyaline, costa 

 pale straw, subcosta uniting with the margin at the basal third; 

 halteres yellowish transparent. Legs a nearly uniform pale straw 



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Fig. 54 Apex of abdomen showing ovipositor of Monardia 

 codendron, enlarged. (Original) 



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yellow ; claws slender, strongly curved, simple. On the venter of 

 the eighth abdominal segment, a pair of irregular, trumpet-shaped, 

 fuscous organs. Ovipositor short, triarticulate, terminal lobe sub- 

 oval. Type Cecid. 122. 



Monardia alexanderi n. sp. 



This species was taken by Mr C. P. Alexander on Sport island, 

 Sacandaga river, N. Y., July 25, 1909. 



Female. Length .75 mm. Antennae extending to the base of the 

 abdomen, sparsely haired, deep red; 12 segments, the fifth with a 

 length one-quarter greater than its diameter, the eleventh and 

 twelfth segments narrowly fused, the latter somewhat reduced. 

 Palpi probably quadriarticulate, the . penultimate narrowly oval, 

 with a length three times its width, the terminal segment one-half 

 longer. Mesonotum dull black. Scutellum and postscutellum ap- 

 parently concolorous. Abdomen fuscous yellowish. Costa pale 

 straw, subcosta uniting therewith near the basal half. Halteres 

 whitish transparent. Legs mostly pale straw, the tarsi variably 

 tinged with reddish, the distal segments darker ; claws strongly 

 curved, slightly swollen subapically ; pulvilli as long as the claws ; 

 ventral glands globose. Ovipositor short ; terminal segment nar- 

 rowly oval, with a length three times its width. Type Cecid. 1370. 



