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the ist segment thickly clothed with snow-white hairs, the 2d and 

 3d and 4th segments broadly margined posteriorly with the same, 

 the bands being wider on the median line; the 5th narrowly mar- 

 gined with white, the 7th brown; the 8th yellowish, the latter two 

 margined posteriorly with long white bristles. Ventral surface dark 

 brown with a broad median silvery white stripe. Genitalia dark 

 brown, tipped with silvery white; coxae yellowish transparent; 

 femora and tibiae dark brown banded at the extremities with 

 yellowish white. 



Female. Length 2 mm. Coloration practically as in the other 

 sex. Ovipositor when extended probably | the length of the ab- 

 domen. 



Bred May 31, 1906, from stem gall on tick trefoil (Meibomia 

 cuspidatum or M. canadensis), taken at Albany, N.Y. 



Type Cecid. 88, N.Y. State Museum. 



Lasioptera corni n. sp. 



Fem.ale. Length .9 mm. Antennae J the length of the body 

 sparsely haired, brownish black, 18 segments. Mesonotum brown- 

 ish yellow, yellowish posteriorly. Submedian lines broad, narrowly 

 separated. The median line shorter. Scutellum yellow, postscu- 

 tellum yellowish. Abdomen dark brown with the ist segment 

 golden, the others yellow banded apically. Ovipositor yellowish. 

 Coxae whitish transparent; femora pale; tibiae pale, brownish 

 above toward the apex; tarsi brown. 



Bred from an oval ocellate leaf gall onCornus paniculata 

 taken at Albany, N.Y. July 16, 1906. 



Type Cecid. 764a, an 51, N.Y. State Museum. 



Lasioptera hamata n. sp. 



Female. Length 1.5 mm. Antennae extending to the base of 

 the abdomen, sparsely haired, dark brown, 18 segments; lower por- 

 tion of face and base of antennae sparsely ornamented with white 

 hairs ; eyes margined posteriorly with the same. Mesonotum brown- 

 ish black; scutellum and postscutellum dark brown. Abdomen 

 dark brown with the 3d, 4th and 5th abdominal segments margined 

 posteriorly with whitish scales. Terminal segments pale yellowish. 

 Coxae dark yellowish brown; femora pale yellowish; tibiae and 

 tarsi slightly variable, dark brown. 



Taken on Solidago at Nassau, N.Y. June 14, 1906. 



Type Cecid. 280, N.Y. State Museum. 



