73GALL MIDGES IN THE COLLECTION OF THE ZOOLOGICAL MUSEUM

The collection of the family Cecidomyiidae in the Zoological Museum, Copenhagen, contains spec-imens of 86 species of which 65 belong to the subfamily Cecidomyiinae, 15 to the subfamily Porricondylinae and 6 to the subfamily Lestremiinae. All gall midge species in the collection of the Zoological Museum are listed together with important data found on labels and with explanatory notes. The oldest part of the collection includes dry specimens collected by R. C. Stæger during the period 1838–1850 (the Stæger Collection) which consists of 10 species interpreted here under their present valid names, viz. Campylomyza flavipes Meigen, Lestremia cinerea Macquart, L. leucophaea (Meigen), Monardia (Xylopriona) atra (Meigen), Porricondyla flava (Meigen), Lestodiplosis variegata (Macquart), Planetella grandis (Meigen), Xylodiplosis nigritarsis (Zetterstedt), Cecidomyia griseola Meigen and C. griseicollis Meigen. Three other species belonging to the Stæger Collection are mounted on microscope slides, viz. Asynapta sp., Claspettomyia niveitarsis (Zetterstedt) and Tetraneuromyia hirticornis (Zetterstedt). Nine species newly identified in the collection are new records for Denmark, viz. Brachyneurina peniophorae Harris, Jaapiella hypochoeridis Sylvén, Lestodiplosis gamma