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Male. Length 2 . 5 mm. Antennae extending to the fourth abdom- 

 inal segment, sparsely short yellow haired, dark brown; 14 segments, 

 the third with a length four times its diameter, the terminal segment 

 broadly rounded. Palp; one long, rather stout, irregular segment. 

 Mesonotum brownish black, the submedian lines distinct, thickly 

 clothed with yellowish hairs. Scutellum reddish 

 brown with a few apical setae, postscutellum slightly 

 darker. Abdomen reddish brown, the second and 

 following segments thickly clothed with long, yellowish 

 hairs. Wings hyaline, costa light brown. Halteres 

 reddish brown, pale yellowish distally. Pleurae and 

 coxae reddish brown, the femora, tibiae and tarsi a 

 variable yellowish brown, the distal tarsal segments 

 reddish brown; claws long, stout, broadly rounded, 

 the pul villi as long as the claws. Genitalia; dorsal 

 plate broad, deeply and triangularly incised, the 

 lobes broadly rounded. Type Cecid. 851. 



Female. Length 3 mm. Antennae extending to the 

 third abdominal segment, sparsely haired, the third 

 with a length six times its diameter, the twelvth with a 

 length a little less than its diameter, the thirteenth with 

 a length about half its diameter, the fourteenth greatly 

 reduced, oblate. Palpi consisting of one long, some- 

 what fusiform segment tapering to an acute apex. 

 Ovipositor about as long as the body. Other charac- 

 ters presumably nearly as in the male. Cecid. 851. 



Fig. 13 As- 

 phondylia 

 au r i p i la. 

 Palpus of fe- 

 male, enlarg- 

 ed (original) 



Asphondylia azaleae Felt 



1907 Felt, E. P. New Species of Cecidomyiidae II, p. 14 



1908 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124:295, 376 



Adults were reared in 1907 from June 15th till the 21st from 

 unopened, brownish, fusiform buds of Azalea taken at Albany, 

 N. Y. Normally only one larva occurs in a gall, though occasionally 

 there may be two. 



Larva. Length 4 mm, stout, pale yellowish. Head small; 

 antennae short, stout, conic; breastbone quadridentate, the inner 

 teeth a little shorter and well divided almost as in A. diervillae 

 (fig. 24). The chitinized area tapers to the apical fourth of the 

 stout shaft, an' irregular arcuate expansion distally. Skin sha- 

 greened; terminal segment rather slender. 



Male. Length 4 mm. Antennae nearly as long as the body 

 thickly fine haired, light brown; 14 segments, the third with a length 

 ioux times its diam.eter, the fourteenth with a length three and one- 

 half times its diameter. Palp; the first segment stout, with a length 

 three times its diameter, the second one-half longer, more slender; 

 face fuscous yellowish, mouth-parts pale orange. Mesonotum dark 



