REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST IQI7 gi 
rectangular, the third one-half longer than the second, slender, 
tapering at each extremity, the fourth a little longer than the third. 
Mesonotum and abdomen light brown, genitalia darker, wings hyaline, 
costa dark brown; halteres yellowish transparent, legs yellowish 
brown, the tarsi a little darker: claws long, evenly curved, simple, 
the pulvilli nearly as long as the claws. Genitalia; basal clasp seg- 
ment short, stout; terminal clasp segment short, stout; dorsal plate 
short, deeply and narrowly incised, the lobes narrowly rounded; 
ventral plate short, broad, deeply and triangularly incised, the lobes 
rounded. Type Cecid. 19. 
Lobopteromyia abdominalis Felt 
1908 Felt, E.P. N. Y. State Mus. Bul. 124, p. 390 
This reddish brown male was swept May 15, 1906 from pine, 
Pioms ecropus, at Albany, N.Y. 
Male. Length 1.66 mm. Antennae extending to the fourth 
abdominal segment, rather thickly haired, hght brown; 14 segments, 
the fifth with stems one-half and two times their diameters respec- 
tively; terminal segment, basal enlargement subglobose, the distal 
one produced, fusiform. Palpi; the first segment short, stout, sub- 
quadrate, the second a little longer, broadly ovate, the third one- 
fourth longer than the second, tapering at both extremities and the 
fourth one-half longer than the third, more slender. Mesonotum 
yellowish brown with indistinct submedian lines bearing straw- 
colored hairs. Scutellum purplish brown, postscutellum reddish. 
Abdomen reddish brown, sparsely clothed with yellowish hairs. 
Wings subhyaline, costa brown; halteres yellowish. Coxae and legs 
yellowish brown, tarsi a little darker; claws long, stout, evenly 
curved, the pulvilli as long as the claws. Genitalia; basal and ter- 
minal clasp segments long, stout; dorsal plate short, broad, deeply, 
irregularly and triangularly incised, the lobes irregularly rounded; 
ventral plate long, stout, deeply and triangularly incised, the lobes 
broadly rounded. Type Cecid. 16. (See plate 6, fig. 6) 
Lobopteromyia venae Felt 
1910 Stebbins, F. A. Springf. Mus. Nat. Hist. Bul. 1, p. 39 
1914 Felt, E. P. Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus, 2:120-21 
The greenish pouchlike vein galls of this species are locally very 
abundant on certain thorn bushes, Crataegus, at Nassau, N. Y. It 
has been recorded from Massachusetts by Miss Stebbins. Dicro- 
diplosis venitalis Felt, probably Zoophagous, has also been 
reared from this gall. 
ENDAPHIS Kieff. 
1896 Kieffer, J. J. Ent. Soc. Fr. Bul., 65: 382-83 
1897 ——————_ Syn. Cecid. Eur. & Alg., p. 29 
1910 Rubsaamen, E.H. Zeitsch. Wissenschaft. Insektenbiol., 15:283 
I91rt Felt, E.P. N.Y. Ent. Soc. Jour., 19:50 
1913 Kieffer, J. J. Gen. Insect., fasc. 152, p. 171 
