. Annual report. New York State Museum; Science; Science. REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST I915 151. female, enlarged (ori- ginal) setae so characteristic of Lasioptera, Dasyneura and their allies. The flagellate segments of the female may have from 2 to 5 or 6 anastomosing circumfili, forming a more or less irregular network on the face of the segment, the more generalized species, C. s i m p 1 a and C. connecta having, as in the male, a somewhat well-developed subapical band of long setae. Palpi com- posed of 4 segments; the wings are of the usual Asphondylid type; the claws are simple, the
. Annual report. New York State Museum; Science; Science. REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST I915 151. female, enlarged (ori- ginal) setae so characteristic of Lasioptera, Dasyneura and their allies. The flagellate segments of the female may have from 2 to 5 or 6 anastomosing circumfili, forming a more or less irregular network on the face of the segment, the more generalized species, C. s i m p 1 a and C. connecta having, as in the male, a somewhat well-developed subapical band of long setae. Palpi com- posed of 4 segments; the wings are of the usual Asphondylid type; the claws are simple, the pulvilli usually being shorter than the claws. The genitalia are very characteristic, the terminal clasp segment being short, stout and curving to a broad, heavily chitinized, denticulate apex; the dorsal and ventral plate, as in Asphondylia are relatively Fig. 29 Cincticor- small. The ovipositor is rather long, rel- nia species. Fourth atively stout, composed of a rather heavy, tapering basal segment and a more slender apical segment, peculiar on account of the thickened chitin along its ventral margin, and apically provided with a pair of small, setose lobes. This organ is distinctly more generalized than the highly developed ovipositor of Asphondylia and Schizomyia. This genus comprises, as our rearings show, mostly, if not entirely, oak insects. The rather stout, yellowish or orange larvae winter in the gall and prior to transformation escape therefrom, enter the soil and spin a loose cocoon with particles of leaves or sand adhering thereto. The adults in nature probably appear in early June at the time the young oak leaves are developing. The galls, so far as we know, are all confined to oak leaves, the more highly specialized forms producing more or less thick-walled, sometimes compound deformations of leaf tissues, while one at least of the generalized forms lives in a relatively inconspicuous cell lying between the slightly thickened epidermal layers. It is possible tha
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