REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST I917 



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This male was taken June 26, 1906 sweeping low ferns or brakes 

 at Karner, N. Y. 



Male. Length 1.5 mm. Antennae twice the length of the body, 

 thickly haired, fuscous; 14 segments, the fifth with the stems each 

 three times their diameter; terminal segment, distal enlargement 

 produced and apically with a long, spindle-shaped appendage. 

 Palpi; the first segment subrectangular, the second a little longer, 



Fig. 48 Bremia filicis, fifth antennal segment of male 

 (author's illustration) 



the third one-half longer than the second, more slender, the fourth 

 a little longer than the third. Mesonotum fuscous. Scutellum and 

 postscutellum yellowish. Abdomen fuscous, clothed with long 

 hairs. Wings hyaline, costa dark brown. Hal teres fuscous. Legs 

 long, slender, the anterior pair fuscous, the posterior gray; claws 

 stout, strongly curved basally. Genitalia; dorsal plate short, 

 broad, broadly emarginate; ventral plate shorter, broad, broadly 

 emarginate. Type Cecid. 397. (See plate 7, fig. 5) 



