REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST I906 I5I 



Bred from a uniform enlargement of the upper portions of solidago 

 stems, the gall being lo cm long by .7 cm in diameter and occurring 

 usually just below the point where the branches arise. Taken at 

 Staten Island April 2, 1907. Adults bred May 6. 



Type Cecid. ai4o8, N. Y. State Museum. 



Lasioptera humulicaulis n. sp. 



Male. Length 2 mm. Antennae extending to the second 

 abdominal segment, sparsely haired, dark brown, basal segments 

 fuscous yellowish, 21 segments; face sparsely clothed with whitish 

 scales, eyes small, narrowly margined posteriorly with silvery 

 white. Mesonotum dark brown, the submedian lines thickly 

 clothed with long, golden yellow scales; laterally there is a narrow 

 margin of yellowish and silvery white scales, the general surface 

 rather thickly clothed with fine, yellowish scales. Scutellum dark 

 brown with rather numerous yellowish setae apically, postscutellum 

 pale orange. Abdomen dark brown with submedian rows of rather 

 large, lunate, silvery white spots, the markings on the posterior 

 margins of segments one to six, the seventh segment and genitalia 

 yellowish orange. Halteres semitransparent basally, pale orange 

 distally. Legs with coxae and basal portion of femora pale yel- 

 lowish, the remainder dark brown. 



Female. Length 3 mm. Antennae extending to the second 

 abdominal segment, thickly haired, dark brown, the basal segments 

 yellowish, 25 segments. Color characters nearly as in the opposite 

 sex. 



Bred May 2, 1907 from a long stem gall on hop. This is a uni- 

 form swelling some 50 cm in length, about i cm in diameter and 

 with a hollow, blackened interior inhabited by numerous larvae. 

 Taken by Henry Bird at Rye, N. Y., April 17, 1907. 



Type Cecid. ai446, N. Y. State Museum. 



Lasioptera lactucae n. sp. 



Female. Length 1.5 mm. Antennae hardly extending to the 

 base of the abdomen, sparsely haired, dark brown, 19 segments. 

 Mesonotum thickly clothed with bronzy scales. Scutellum yellowish 

 with a few apical setae, postscutellum apparently dark brown. 

 Abdomen dark brown or black, with submedian rows of lunate, 

 silvery white marks on the posterior marginsjof the segments. 



