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scales, the venter sparsely clothed with silvery white scales. Legs 

 a nearly uniform black. 



Bred from several oval, yellowish, marginal, blister galls on 

 solidago. 



Type Cecid. ai43o, N. Y. State Museum. 



Choristoneura hamata n. sp. 



Male. Length 3 mm. Antennae extending to the base of the 

 abdomen, sparsely haired, dark brown, 18 segments; face fuscous 

 with a few whitish scales; head rather thickly clothed with pale 

 yellowish scales posteriorly. Mesonotum dark brown, sparsely 

 margined laterally and anteriorly with yellowish hairs, submedian 

 lines rather thickly clothed with the same. Scutellum dark brown 

 with a few whitish scales, postscutellum dark brown. Abdomen 

 dark brown or black with submedian rows of conspicuous lunate, 

 silvery white spots. Genitalia, fuscous yellowish. Halteres pale 

 yellowish. Legs a variable brown, the tarsi dark brown. 



Female. Length 2.75 mm. Antennae extending to the base of 

 the abdomen, sparsely haired, dark brown, 20 to 22 segments. 

 Other color characters about as in the opposite sex. 



Bred April 28 and May 18, 1907 from an oval gall on the stem 

 of an unknown weed taken at Albany, N. Y. This enlargement 

 somewhat resembles that made by Lasioptera desmodii 

 Felt. 



Type Cecid. ai458, N. Y. State Museum. 



Choristoneura hibisci n. sp. 



Male. Length 1.75 mm. Antennae hardly extending to the 

 base of the abdomen, thickly haired, dark brown, 16 segments; 

 face fuscous with a conspicuous patch of silvery white scales, the 

 black eyes narrowly margined posteriorly with silvery white. 

 Mesonotum dark brown, narrowly and irregularly margined 

 laterally with golden yellow scales, the submedian lines rather 

 thickly clothed with golden yellow hairs. Scutellum dark brown, 

 sparsely ornamented with silvery white scales and with a few long 

 setae apically, postscutellum dark brown. Abdomen dark brown or 

 black, with submedian rows of somewhat irregular, sub lunate, 

 silvery white spots. Halteres pale salmon basally, whitish trans- 

 parent apically. Legs mostly dark brown, the articulations annu- 

 late with white, the bands broader on the posterior tarsi. 



