REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST I915 I43 



Asphondylia salictaria Felt 



1907 Felt, E. P. New Species of Cecidomyiidae II, p. 16-17 



1908 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124:297-98, 377 



Willow twigs infested by this species were collected by Mr J. H. 

 Jackson at Pleasantville, Ind., May 6, 1889, the adults appearing 

 May 15th. 



Exuviae. Length 5 mm, the cephalic horns absent in the prep- 

 aration, the dorsum of the third or fourth abdominal segment with 

 a regular row of small spines at the distal third, the basal half sparsely 

 ornamented with smaller, widely scattered spines; the terminal seg- 

 ment with a posterior row of 11 or 12 spines, there being a median 

 group of five small ones, the basal half sparsely ornamented with 

 scattering, smaller spines. This species has the spines relatively 

 much less developed than in many other forms. 



Female. Length 3.5 mm. Antennae about as long as the body, 

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

 length fully six times its diameter. Palpi; the first segment short, 

 stout, subquadrate, the second stout, with a length fully three times 

 its diameter, the third a little longer than the second, curved and 

 dilated apically. Mesonotum dark brown, the submedian. lines 

 fuscous yellowish, thickly clothed with long setae. Scutellum yellow- 

 ish brown with numerous coarse setae apically, postscutellum dull 

 yellowish white. Abdomen brown, rather thickly clothed with fine 

 setae, the segments variably margined posteriorly with whitish 

 setae, the basal segment margined anteriorly and posteriorly with 

 silvery white; venter thickly clothed with silvery hairs. Wings 

 hyaline, costa light brown ; halteres yellowish basally, fuscous apically. 

 Coxae and base of femora fuscous yellowish, distal portion of femora, 

 tibiae and tarsi dark brown; claws long, stout, strongly curved, the 

 pulvilli longer than the claws. Ovipositor hardly the length of the 

 abdomen. Type Cecid. 859. 



Asphondylia johnsoni Felt 



1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124:377 



1909 Ottawa Nat., 22:246 



This insect was reared from Solidago at Lansdown, Pa., July 

 2 8th by Prof. C. W. Johnson. 



Exuviae. Length 5 mm, light brown, rather slender, the cephalic 

 horns long, stout, conical, the dorsimi of the third or fourth abdom- 

 inal segment with a transverse row of uniform, heavy, chitinous 

 teeth on the distal third, the basal half with a somewhat irregular 

 transverse row of smaller, somewhat irregular teeth and a rudi- 

 mentary scattering row just anteriorly ; terminal segment posteriorly 

 with a row of about eight heavy, chitinous teeth, the latero-ventral 



