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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 Soli dago at West- 

 field, N. Y., July n, 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 oped a lis. Pal- 

 a nd probably deeply emarginate, the lobes pus of male, en- 

 D roadly 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. I. 

 Larva. Length 3 mm, stout, 

 white, the head small. Anten- 

 nae stout, biarticulate, conical; 

 breastbone quadridentate, 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- 

 Fig. 15 Asphondylia siccae. reened. Terminal segment slend- 

 Breastbone.of larva, enlarged (original) er posteriorly, bilobed. 



