IA4 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
Microcerata cockerelli Felt 
‘1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bul. 124, p. 310 
This species, placed at our disposal through the courtesy of the 
United States National Museum, swarmed at Mesilla, N: M., in 
August and was collected by Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell. 
Male. Length 1.75 mm. Antennae short, sparsely haired, dark 
brown; 8 segments, the fourth flattened basally and apically, with 
a length three-fourths its diameter, tapering, the other segments 
successively shorter, the terminal one fusiform, with a constriction 
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Fig. 23 Antenna of male Mi ETOCeT ata jo hin som. enlarged. (Original 
near the distal fourth. Palpi; the first segment stout, the second 
a little longer and more slender, the third one-half longer and more 
slender than the second and the fourth nearly twice the length of 
the third. Body dark brown. Wings hyaline, costa light brown. 
Legs light fuscous yellowish; claws stout, slightly curved, simple, 
the pulvilli as long as the claws. Genitalia; basal clasp segment 
long, slender, slightly curved, roundly truncate; terminal clasp seg- 
ment long, tapering, the apex obtuse, spined; dorsal plate long, 
broad, broadly and roundly emarginate, the lobes divergent; ventral 
plate long, broad, tapering, irregularly rounded. Harpes long, 
slender, subacute; style long, slender, acute. Type Cecid. 932. 
