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tellum yellowish, abdomen pale yellowish brown, wings hyaline, haltères whitish transpar- 

 ent, coxae yellowish, legs mostly pale straw, claws rather long, slender, evenly curved, 

 simple, the pulvilli distinctly shorter than the claws. üenitaUa, basal clasp segment rather 

 long, broad, and with a distinct broadly triangular setose appendage. Terminal clasp 

 segment inserted subapically, short, stout, the distal margin roundly subtruncate, one 

 angle strongly chitinized and minutely denticulate. Dorsal plate short, broad, broadly 

 and triangularly emarginate, the short lobes sparsely setose; ventral plate short, broad, 

 brodaly emarginate, the lobes narrowly and sparsely setose apically. 



Pupa (Male). Length 1.5 m.M. Antennal cases extending to the base of the 

 abdomen, the antennal horn narrowly triangular and strongly bidentate apically. Thoracic 

 horns long, slender, slightly curved, acute apically. The fuscous wing cases extending to 

 the fourh abdominal segment and the leg cases to the last abdominal segment. Mesonotum 

 yellowish brown, abdomen yellowish, the segments dorsally with two or three transverse 

 basal rows of short, stout, triangular spines. 



Larva. Length L5 m.M. Antennae yellowish orange, breastbone reddish brown, 

 bidentate apically. 



Type Cecid. A 3092 N. Y. State Museum. 



Female. Length 2 m.M. Antennae extending to the second abdominal segment, 

 sparsely haired, yellowish brown, 14 segments, the 5th cylindrical with a length about 

 four times its diameter and moderately high, thick circumfila. Palpi, first segment short, 

 subquadrate, the second one half longer, more slender, the third one half longer than 

 the second, more slender, and the fourth one half longer than the third. Mesonotum 

 dark reddish brown, scutellum and postscutellum reddish, abdomen brownish red, haltères 

 yellowish transparent, coxae brownish red, legs mostly pale yellowish. Claws moderately 

 long, stout, strongly curved, the pulvilli shorter than the claws. Ovipositor about as long 

 as the abdomen, the distal portion filiform, the tip narrowly triangular and sparsely 

 setose. Cecid. A. 3091. 



The female is form the second lot mentioned above and the association with 

 the type form, the male, is provisional. 



Asphondylia callicarpae Felt. 



1918, Felt, E. P., Phil. Journ. Sei. 13:285-86. 



1919, Uichanco, L. B., Phil. Journ. Sei. 14:536-37. 



This msect has been reared from a polythalamous midrib enlargement. 

 Adults of what are with very little question this species bore the following 



