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of the second, moderately stout. Mesonotiini dark brown, scutellum, postsciitellum and 

 abdomen yellowsh brown. Haltères whitish transparent, coxae and legs mostly pale straw, 

 moderately stout, strongly curved, simple, the pulvilli as long as the claws. Genitalia, 

 basal clasp segment long, stout, terminal clasp segment short, greatly swollen, bidentate. 



Female. Length 3 m.M. Antennae nearly as long as the body, sparsely haired, 

 light brown, 14 segments, the fifth cylindric, with a length 3'/2 times its diameter, the 

 13th with a length a little greater than its diameter, the 14th globose. Mesonotum dark 

 brown, scutellum yellowish brown, abdomen yellowish brown, otherwise as in the male. 

 Ovipositor nearly as long as the body, the distal portion aciculate, dorsal pouch well 

 developed. 



Pupa. Length 3 m.M. Head, mesonotum, and anterior portion of body fuscous, 

 the abdomen yellowish to reddish brown, antennal horns long, stout, slightly curved, 

 anteimal cases extending to the base of the abdomen, the fuscous wing cases to the third 

 abdominal segment and the dark leg cases to the fourth and fifth abdominal segments. 

 The dorsum of the abdominal segments with one transverse row of long, stout chitinous 

 spines near the middle and on the basal half an irregular row on the second to the 4th 

 abdominal segments and a double row on the 5th, 6th and 7th. The terminal segment 

 with the spines irregularly arranged. 



Type Cecid. A 3097 N. Y. State Museum. 



Asphondylia litseae n. sp. 

 Only one adult of this somewhat generalized species was reared. It was 

 labeled as follows: Litsea spec, No. 2159, Oengaran-Gebirge, altitude 1400 

 M., 21/IV, 1914, DvL. There were in addition to the female two pupae. The 

 heavy, relatively high circumfila suggestive of Schizomyia and the absence 

 of the well developed dorsal pouch at the extremity of the abdomen raises a 

 doubt as to the generic position of this species and lacking specimens of the 

 male, the insect is tentatively placed in this genus. 



Pig. 5. Asphondylia litseae, 

 dorsal view of the antennal 

 horns of the female pupa. 



Female. Length 2.5 m.M. Antennae ex- 

 tending to the fourth abdominal segment, sparsely 

 haired, pale yellowish, 14 sessile segments, the fifth 

 with a length 2'/2 times its diameter and with the 

 relatively coarse, high circumfila ol Schizomyia 

 Terminal segment reduced, subglobose. Palpi, first 

 segment subquadrate, second broadly oval, acute 

 apically. Mesonotum reddish brown, the submedian 

 lines yellowish, scutellum and postscutellum yellow- 

 ish, abdomen brownish yellow. Wings subhyaline, 



