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heavy, chitinized area extends to the apical fourth, shaft irregular 

 and with a weekly chitinized, crescentic area posteriorly; skin shag- 

 reened; terminal segment slender, bilobed. 



Male. Length 4 mm. Antennae extending about to the fifth 

 abdominal segment, thickly fine haired, light brown, the basal seg- 

 ments fuscous yellowish; 14 segments, the third with a length six 

 times its diameter. Palpi; the first segment short, stout, subquad- 



Fig. .25 Asphondylia diervillae. Palpus of female, enlarged 



(original) 



rate, the second rather stout with a length about three times its 

 diameter, the third twice the length of the second, tapering at both 

 extremities; face fuscous yellowish. Mesonotum slaty brown, the 

 submedian lines thickly clothed with long, grayish setae. Scutellum 

 reddish brown with niimerous apical setae, postscutellum a reddish 

 salmon. Abdomen with the dorsal sclerites a nearly uniform dark 

 brown, the incisures dull salmon; each of the segments sparsely 

 clothed with fine hairs and margined posteriorly with long, yellowish 

 setae. Genitalia fuscous; venter with the posterior segments rather 

 thickly clothed with cinereous hairs. Wings hyaline, costa dark 

 brown.; halteres pale salmon basally, fuscous apically; coxae and 

 base of femora a fuscous yellowish, the distal portion of femora, 

 tibiae and tarsi a nearly uniform dark brown; claws long, stout, 

 strongly curved, the pul villi longer than the claws. Genitalia; 

 dorsal plate apparently divided, the lobes roundly triangular. 



Female. Length 3.5 mm. Antennae extending to the fourth 

 abdominal segment, sparsely haired, grayish brown. Mesonotum 

 dull slate color, irregularly margined laterally with long, grayish 

 setae, the submedian lines thickly clothed with similar setae. Scutel- 

 lum slaty gray with long setae apically, postscutellum fuscous 

 yellowish. Abdomen a nearly uniform dark brown, the segments 

 sparsely margined posteriorly with long, grayish setae; pleurae 

 and abdomen rather thickly clothed with yellowish white setae; 

 coxae a dull gray, the pul villi as long as the claws. Ovipositor about 

 as long as the body, otherwise nearly as in the male. Type Cecid. 

 ai469. 



