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This male was taken June 26, jgo6 swcepino; low ferns or l:>rakcs 

 at Earner, N. Y. 



Male. Length 1.5 mm. Antennae twice the lenj^th of the body, 

 thickly haired, fuscous; 14 segments, the fifth with the stems each 

 three times their diameter; terminal segment, distal enlargement 

 produced and apically with a long, spindle-shaped appendage. 

 Palpi; the first segment subreetangular, the second a little longer. 



Fig. 48 B r e m i a f i 1 i c i s, fifth antennal segment of male 

 (author's ilhistration) 



the third one-half longer than the second, more slender, the fourth 

 a little longer than the third. Mesonotum fuscous. Scutellum and 

 postseutellum yeUowish. Abdomen fuscous, clothed with long 

 hairs. Wings hyaline, costa dark brown. Halteres fuscous. Legs 

 long, slender, the anterior pair fuscous, the posterior gray; claws 

 stout, strongly curved basaUy. GenitaHa; dorsal plate short, 

 broad, broadly emarginate; ventral plate shorter, broad, broadly 

 emarginate. Type Cecid. 397. (See plate 7, fig. 5) • 



