. Annual report. New York State Museum; Science; Science. REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST I915 139 a light brown; claws long, stout, strongly curved, the pulvilli nearly as long as the claws. Ovipositor nearly as long as the abdomen. Cecid. 864. Asphondylia neomexicana Ckll. 1896 Cockerell, T. D. A. N. Y. Ent. Soc. Jour., 4:204 (Cecidomyia) This species was taken by Professor Cockerell in the Organ mountains, New Mexico, at an elevation of 5100 feet and was also common on Tularosa creek. The adult, he states, resembled A. a t r i p 1 i- c i s Twns. though the gall is quite different. There is
. Annual report. New York State Museum; Science; Science. REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST I915 139 a light brown; claws long, stout, strongly curved, the pulvilli nearly as long as the claws. Ovipositor nearly as long as the abdomen. Cecid. 864. Asphondylia neomexicana Ckll. 1896 Cockerell, T. D. A. N. Y. Ent. Soc. Jour., 4:204 (Cecidomyia) This species was taken by Professor Cockerell in the Organ mountains, New Mexico, at an elevation of 5100 feet and was also common on Tularosa creek. The adult, he states, resembled A. a t r i p 1 i- c i s Twns. though the gall is quite different. There is an excellent series of galls in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. It may prove identical with the preceding species. M- Fig. 22 Asphondylia neomexicana. Gall; a, section; b, external aspect (original) Asphondylia sambuci Felt 1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124:377 This female was reared from a greenish white bud gall apparently on elder, Sambucus, sent to this office June 10, 1907 by Miss E. G. Mitchell of Washington, D. C. Gall. This gall is irregularly subglobular, about cm in diameter, green, hoary white with three thickened, projecting green bracts, each subtriangular in shape and about cm long. Female. Length mm. Antennae nearly as long as the body, sparsely haired, dark brown, the basal segments yellowish; 14 segments, the third with a length fully five times its diameter. Palpi; the first segment short, stout, subquad- rate, the second stout, with a length fully four times its diameter, the third one-half longer than the second, tapering at both extremities; face silvery between the antennae, whitish beneath, a tuft of black hairs at the middle. Mesono- tum dark brown, cinereous, with the submedian lines sparsely clothed with pale hairs; laterally F- A so h on- similar hairs margin the mesonotum. Scutellum dark reddish. Abdomen a uniform dark brown, the segments margined posteriorly with a thin row of fuscous hairs; laterally and ve
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