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reticulate apically, though not visible in the preparation; terminal 

 segment produced, with a length four times its diameter and 

 tapering to a broadly rounded apex. Palp consisting of one ir- 

 regularly, broadly oval segment bearing a few stout setae sub- 

 apically; eyes large, black, nearly contiguous. Mesonotum a 

 nearly uniform fuscous yellowish. Scutellum yellowish transparent, 

 postscutellum and abdomen light fuscous yellowish and sparsely 

 clothed with fuscous setae. Wings hyaline: hal teres yellowish 

 basally, fuscous apically. Coxa?, a light fuscous yellowish; femora, 

 tibiae and tarsi a nearly uniform light fuscous straw; claws stout, 

 heavily curved, simple, the pul villi more than twice the length of 

 the claws, greatly expanded. Genitalia fuscous; basal clasp seg- 

 ment stout, broad; terminal clasp segment moderately long, swollen 

 near the middle and tapering uniformly to the obtuse apex and the 

 irregular base; dorsal plate long, broad, deeply and triangularly 

 emarginate, the lobes narrowly rounded and sparsely setose; 

 ventral plate long, broad, broadly rounded apically. Harpes 

 apparently represented by divergent, broad, slightly chitinized, 

 submedian processes, obliquely truncate and narrowly rounded 

 distally. 



Female — Length 3 mm. Antennae extending to the second 

 abdominal segment, sparsely haired, fuscous yellowish; 14 or 15 

 subsessile segments, the fifth with a length about twice its diameter, 

 a subbasal whorl of moderately short, stout setae and subapically 

 low. very irregularly reticulate circumfili forming three or four 

 transverse bands (circumfili distinctly visible in only one specimen, 

 a2694) ; terminal segment compound, consisting of two or three 

 segments, closely fused and with a length three to five times its 

 diameter; eyes large, black, Mesonotum dark yellowish brown. 

 Scutellum and postscutellum a little lighter. Abdomen yellowish 

 white, sparsely clothed with fuscous hairs. Ovipositor short, 

 stout, the terminal segment with a length one-half greater than its 

 diameter, slightly and variably chitinized basally and ventrally, 

 the terminal lobes broad, broadly rounded and sparsely setose. 

 Other characters nearly as in the male. Type Cecid. a 2693. 



Asphondylia sesami, n. sp. 

 The Gingelly gall fly, according to Prof. T. Bainbrigge 

 Fletcher, Imperial Entomologist of the Agricultural Research 



