REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 1918 89 
length of the cylindric basal enlargement. Terminal segment some- 
what produced. Palpus nearly as in male, face fuscous yellowish, 
other color characters as in the male. Ovipositor (fig. 6) short, 
the lobes ovate and sparsely setose. Type Cecid. aI775. 

Fig. 6 Arthrocnodax apiphila, tip of abdomen 
of female showing ovipositor (enlarged, original) 
Arthrocnodax macrofila Felt 
1907 Felt, E.P. New Species of Cecidomyiidae II, p. 21-22 
r908 —————_ NN Y. State Mus. Bul. 124, p. 302-3, 404 
This reddish brown male was reared in the bureau of entomology, 
United State Department of Agriculture, August 3, 1902 from a 
fungus collected at Las Vegas, N. M. 
Male. Length 1 mm. Antennae a little longer than the body, 
thickly haired, light brown; fourteen segments, the fifth with stems 
very short, each with a length one and one-fourth times its diameter; 
terminal segment, the distal enlargement slightly produced, tapering, 
obtuse. Palpi; the first segment short, stout, subglobose, the second 
rather stout, with a length fully three times its diameter, the third 
a little longer and more slender. Mesonotum reddish brown. 
Scutellum light reddish yellow, postscutellum darker. Abdomen 
reddish brown. Wings hyaline, costa light straw, halteres yellowish 
transparent. Coxae, femora and tibiae pale yellowish, tarsi reddish 
brown; claws long, slender, strongly curved, the pulvilli shorter 
than the claws. Genitalia; basal clasp segment short, broad, ter- 
minal clasp segment short, stout, swollen basally; dorsal plate short, 
broad, deeply and roundly emarginate, the lobes narrowly rounded; 
ventral plate long, tapering, narrowly rounded. Type Cecid. 1023. 
