NEW PHILIPPINE GALL MIDGES 
By E. P. Felt 
State Entomologist, Albany, New York 
The present account, based on a small collection of gall midges 
recently at hand, is a continuation of previous studies. 1 
The five species in this lot reveal the presence in the Philip- 
pines of the European Stenodiplosis geniculctti Reut., known 
also from New Zealand and recorded from the last locality as 
seriously damaging the developing seed of Alopecurus pratensis. 
The Philippine record indicates a probable wide distribution 
of this species, and its being reared in the Islands from panicles 
of Panicum crus-galli Linn, suggests that this midge may de- 
velop in the seeds of various grasses. 
The occurrence of a species presumably congeneric with a pe- 
culiar South American form is of more than ordinary interest, 
especially as we have no record of Scheueria from other parts 
of the world. It should also be pointed out that known species 
of Toxomyia are fungivorous, and in view of this it may be de- 
monstrated later that the two females referred to this genus 
really developed from fungus-feeding larvae rather than from 
gall producers. 
This small collection was received through the courtesy of 
Mr. Leopoldo B. Uichanco, of the department of entomology, 
College of Agriculture, University of the Philippines. 
Scheueria schefflerse sp. nov. 
Female. — Length, 1.25 millimeters. Antennae extending to 
base of abdomen, rather thickly haired, dark brown, of 17 seg- 
ments, the first broadly obconic, the second globose, the third 
and fourth narrowly fused, the fifth with a length one-fourth 
greater than its diameter, sparse basal and subapical whorls of 
long, stout setae and low circumfila united by transverse fila 
near the basal third, and subapically. Terminal segment some- 
what produced, broadly oval, with a length about twice its 
diameter. Palpi uniarticulate, the one segment broadly, irreg- 
* Felt, E. P., New Philippine Gall Midges with a Key to the Itonididas, 
Philip. Joum. Sci. § D 13 (1918) 281; 14 (1919) 287. 
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