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Asphondylia fulvopedalis Felt 



1907 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 110:118 (separate, p. 22) 



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



Adults were swept from Solidago at West- 

 field, N. Y., July II, 1906. 



Male. Length 2 mm. Antennae as long as 

 the body, sparsely haired, light brown, fuscous 

 basally; 14 segments, the third with a length 

 about five times its diameter. Palpi; first 

 segment small, suboval, the second broadly 

 oval, the third twice the length of the second, 

 swollen basally, tapering. Face fuscous. Meso- 

 notum dark brown, the submedian lines lighter, 

 scutellum, postscutellum and abdomen dark 

 brown, the segments of the latter narrowly 

 margined posteriorly with yellowish brown. ( 



Wings hyaline, costa light brown. Halteres fus- 

 cous. Legs fuscous straw, tarsal segments dull Fig. 14 Asphon- 

 yellowish; claws stout, strongly and uniformly dylia fulv- 

 curved. Genitalia; dorsal plate broad, narrowly opedalis. Pal- 

 aud probably deeply emarginate, the lobes pus of male, en- 

 broadly rounded. Type Cecid. 546. larged (original) 



Asphondylia siccae Felt 

 1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124:376 



Unripe fruit of Phyllanthus distichus, the Otaheite 

 gooseberry, is commonly badly injured by the stout, white larvae of 



this species, according to Dr 

 N. Grabham of Jamaica, W. L 

 Larva. Length 3 m.m., stout, 

 white, the head small. Anten- 

 nae stout, biarticulate, conical; 

 breastbone quadri dentate, the 

 inner teeth much shorter than 

 the outer and deeply divided; 

 the heavy chitinized area round- 

 ed and extending to the basal 

 half of the irregular shaft, 

 which latter has a slender 

 irregularly chitinized crescentic 

 area posteriorly. A slightly 

 chitinized, roughly crescentic 

 area occurs anterior of the 

 breastbone; skin coarsely shag- 

 reened. Terminal segment slend- 

 er posteriorly, bilobed. 



Fig. 15 Asphondylia siccae. 

 Breastbone^of larva, enlarged (original) 



