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Abdomen brownish red. Wings hyaline, the larger veins tinged with 
red. MHalteres yellowish transparent. Legs straw yellow, tarsi a 
little darker apically; claws slender, strongly curved. Genitalia: 
dorsal plate slender, deeply emarginate, the lobes broadly rounded. 
Type Cecid. 9. (See plate 9, fig. 5) ‘ 
Contarinia balsamifera Felt 
1907 Felt, E.P. N.Y. State Mus. Bul. r1o, p. 131; separate, p. 34-35 
1000 ee N.Y. tate Mus. Bul. 124, p. 393 
This small, yellowish red species was exceedingly common in the 
‘balsam trees about Lake Clear, June 7, 1906. Swarms were observed 
one still afternoon flying about balsam, Abies balsamifera, 
and it was also taken about hemlock or hemlock spruce, Abies 
canadensis. This may be identical with the Diplosis 
balsamifera Lintn., though none of the characteristic galls 
were discoverable. 
Male. Length 1mm. Antennae about twice as long as the body, 
thickly haired, light brown; 14 segments, the fifth with stems each 
two and one-half times their diameter; terminal segment, basal 
enlargement subglobular, the distal enlargement fusiform, the apex 
slightly produced, narrowly rounded. Palpi; the first segment 
short, subquadrate, the second subrectangular, twice the length of 
the preceding, the third more slender, a little longer, the fourth a 
little longer and more slender than the preceding; face yellowish 
brown. Mesonotum dark brown, the posterior median area lighter, 
submeédian lines yellowish. Scutellum yellowish carmine, post- 
scutellum and abdomen light yellowish red. Wings hyaline, costa 
light brown; halteres whitish transparent. Legs nearly uniform 
light brown, lighter ventrally, tarsi darker; claws slender, strongly 
and uniformly curved. Genitalia; dorsal plate broad, deeply and 
triangularly incised, the lobes narrowly rounded. Type Cecid. 143. 
Contarinia pyrivora Riley 
Pear Midge 
1884 Ormerod, E.A. Obsv. Inj. Ins. 7th Rep’t, p. 52-54 (Cec idomyia 
nigra) 
1884 Smith, J.B. U.S. Com. Agric. Rep’t, p. 396-98 (Cecidomyia) 
1885 Riley, C. V. U.S. Com. Agric. Rep’t, p. 283-89 (Diplosis) 
1887 ———_ Wien. Ent. Zeit., 6:201-6 (Diplosis nigra) 
1888 ————— & Howard, L. O. Ins. Life, 1:120-21 (Diplosis) 
1888 Meade, R.H. Entomologist, 21:123-31 (Diplosis) . 
1888 Bloomfield, E. N. Ent. Monthly Mag., 24:273-74 (Cecidomyia 
nigra Meig.) - 
1889 ——————_ Ent. Month. Mag., 25:323-24 (Cecidomyia) 
1891 Lintner J. A. Can. Ent., 23: 223-24 (Diplosis) 
1891 Riley, C. V. & Howard, L. O. Ins. Life, 4:125 (Platy gaster 
philanna Walk., reared, D. nigra Meig.) 
