Bulletin Volume 201-202 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ... the claws. Ovipositor stout, about half the length of the abdomen; terminal lobe with a length twice its width. Type Cecid. 20. (See plate 6, fig. 7 and plate 10, fig. 2) Lobopteromyia apicalis Felt 1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 390 The yellowish males described below and taken May 18, 1906 on basswood, Tilia americana, at Albany, N. Y., in association with females, presumably cospecific, may be identical with the Cecidomyia verrucicola O. S. Male. Length 1.25 mm. Antennae pale straw, longer than the body; 14 segments, the fifth having the stems one-half and one and one-half times-their diameters, respectively, the terminal segment with the basal enlargement slightly produced, pyriform, the distal enlargement produced, broadly fusiform. Palpi; the first segment short, stout, irregularly quadrate, the second a little longer, roundly rectangular, the third one-half longer, more cylindric, the fourth one-half longer and more slender than the third, strongly tapering distally. Mesonotum sooty yellowish. Scutellum a little lighter, postscutellum darker. Abdomen yellowish, darker at the extremities. Wings hyaline, costa yellowish brown. Halteres yellowish transparent. Legs yellowish brown; claws long, slender, evenly curved; pulvilli nearly as long as the claws. Genitalia; basal and terminal clasp segments short, stout; dorsal plate short, stout, deeply, roundly and narrowly emarginate, the lobes broad; ventral plate long, tapering, triangularly emarginate, the lobes narrowly rounded. Female. Length 1.25 mm. Antennae pale straw, about one-half the length of the body; 14 segments, the fifth with the stem about one-fourth the length of the subcylindric basal enlargement, which latter has a length one-half greater than its diameter; terminal segmen...