REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST I918 121 



Male. Length i mm. Antennae longer than the body, thickly 

 haired, light brown; fourteen segments, the fifth with stems three 

 and three and one-half times their diameters respectively; terminal 

 segment, basai enlargement subglobose, the basal portion of the 

 stem with a length four times its diameter, the distal enlargement 

 subcylindric, with a length three and one-half times its diameter, 

 apically a slender, tapering process. Palpi; the first segment irregu- 

 larly cylindric, with a length one-half greater than its diameter, 

 the second segment with a length about four times its diameter, 

 tapering, the third about as long as the second, more slender, the 

 fourth a little longer than the third, somewhat dilated; face fuscous 

 yellowish. Mesonotum dark brown, the narrow submedian lines 

 yellowish, sparsely haired. Scutellum fuscous yf ^wish post- 

 scutellum a little darker. Abdomen rather bright red, the terminal 

 segments yellow, each margined postenorly with fuscous rather 

 coarse yellowish hairs. Wings hyaline costa light brown Halteres 

 yellowish basally, fuscous apically. Legs a ^^^r ty tinto light 

 straw; claws long, slender, evenly cuived the P^f 11^^°^^ .^wo- 

 thirds the length of the claws. Genita la ; ^asal dasp se^^n^ 

 slender, a subtriangular process at the mternal basal third ,tei^al 

 clasp segment long; dorsal plate long, broad deep y and tnang^larly 

 incised, the lobes obliquely truncate; ventral plate long, slender 

 broadly and triangularly incised, the lobes subtriangular. Type 

 Cecid. 446. 



Giardomyia hudsonica Felt 



1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui, 124, p. 406 

 This deep reddish male was taken June 9, 1906 in a trap lantern 

 at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. , .. 



Male. Length i mm. Antennae about twice as long as the 



body, rather thickly haired, light brown; fourteen segments the 



fifth With stems two and one-half and three and one-half times their 



dSmlters respectively; terminal segment, the distal enlargement 



cvlindric with a length four times its diameter, apically with a long, 



sSnde? tiering process. Palpi; the first segment short, stout 



wSia'leyalout twice its iameter the second with a length 



Nearly four times its diameter, the third a little shorter and more 



slenilr and the fourth a little longer than the third and more d^^^^^^ 



face vellowish. Mesonotum dark reddish brown the yellowisn 



submJSan lines sparsely haired. Scutellum. dul orange, post- 



SuS and abdomen dark reddish . Genitalia yellowish^ Wmg 



hvaline venation probably as m allied forms. Halteres tuscous 



Sh ydlowish transparent basally. Legs a nearly uniform dark 



straw claws stout, cui^ed nearly at right angles, slightly swollen 



sSicXpS^ll about two-thirds the length of the claws. Geni- 



ahafbt^'dasp segment long, slender, a lobe at the interna dis^a^ 



third- terminal clasp segment long; dorsal plate long, deeply and 



SiulaX Siarginate, the lobes broad, subrectanplar; ventral 



pSte^slender": slightly expanded distally, broadly emargmate 



