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ie-half longer and more slender than the third: face yellowish 
scous. Mesonotum rather pale orange with a slightly dusky, 
road, median stripe, the latter margined by submedian yellowish 
nes sparsely ornamented with pale setae. Scutellum pale orange, 
ostscutellum slightly darker. Abdomen pale orange with the two 
asal segments and genitalia fuscous. Wings hyaline, costa light 
rown; halteres whitish transparent, anterior legs with the femora 
md tibiae mostly pale straw, the tarsi dark brown, the other legs 
aostly pale straw color, variably tinged with carmine; claws stout, 
trongly curved basally. Genitalia; basal clasp segment stout; 
erminal clasp segment short, stout, swollen basally; dorsal plate 
road, deeply and triangularly incised, the lobes broadly rounded: 
entral plate stout, broad, slightly emarginate; style short, stout. 
Pype Cecid. 237. (See plate 10, fig. 5) 
Mycodiplosis perplexa Felt 
1908 Felt, E.P. N.Y. State Mus. Bul. 124, p. 402 
The bright-orange male was taken at Albany, N. Y., July 16, 
906 on low or trailing blackberry, Rubus villosus. 
Male. Length 2 mm. Antennae as long as the body, thickly 
iaired, light brown, the basal segments fuscous yellowish; 14 seg- 
nents, the fifth with stems three-fourths and two and one-half times 
heir diameters, respectively. Palpi; first segment short, stout, 
groadly oval, the second rather slender, with a length nearly four 
imes its diameter, the third a little longer and more slender than 
he second, the fourth as long as the third, somewhat dilated; face 
uscous yellowish. Mesonotum. light brown, the submedian lines 
ather broad, yellow. Scutellum dark reddish, postscutellum yel- 
owish. Abdomen bright orange, the segments margined poste- 
jorly with coarse setae. Genitalia slightly fuscous, rather thickly 
lothed with yellowish hairs. Wings hyaline, costa light brown; 
malteres pale orange basally, semitransparent apically. Coxae and 
yasal portion of femora pale orange, the femora distally and tibiae 
ight fuscous, the tarsi slightly darker; claws long, slender, strongly 
urved, the pulvilli rudimentary, about one-third the length of the 
laws. Genitalia; basal clasp segment long, stout; terminal clasp 
egment short, stout; dorsal plate long, deeply and narrowly incised, 
he lobes broad, tapering, narrowly rounded; ventral plate short, 
stout, broadly and slightly emarginate; style short, stout. Type 
Becid. 554. 
Mycodiplosis packardi Felt 
1918 Felt, E. P. Econom. Ent. Jour., 11:382 
The presumably predaceous larvae of this midge appear to be 
issociated with those of the pitch inhabiting Retinodiplosis 
tlbitarsis Felt, though the condition of the material was such 
that the precise relation between the two could not be established. 
