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Holoneurus altifilus Felt 



1907 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. up, p. 147 (separate, p. 51) (Porri- 

 condyla) 



1908 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 420 



This yellowish species was taken flying about skunk's cabbage, 

 Symplocarpus foetidus, at Karner, N. Y., June 26, 1906. 



Female. Length 1.25 mm. Antennae as long as the body, 

 sparsely haired, fuscous; 12 segments, the fifth with a stem as long 

 as the subcylindric basal enlargement, which latter has a length 



Fig. 36 Holoneurus altifilus; fifth a, and sixth b, antennal segments 

 of female, enlarged (original) 



three and one-half times its diameter, the terminal segment with 

 the basal portion produced, the apical third constricted and the 

 stem represented by a small, subcorneal appendage. Palpi; the 

 first segment long, slightly contracted basally, the second as long as 

 the first, stouter, the third about as long as the second, more slender, 

 the fourth one-half longer than the third, slightly swollen distally. 

 Head black. Mesonotum and scutellum reddish yellow, the latter 

 with a fuscous line at the apex, postscutellum and abdomen yellow- 

 ish. Wings hyaline, costa yellowish. Halteres pale, the anterior 

 legs fuscous at the base, tarsi paler, the posterior legs pale; claws 



