REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST I914 l6l 



terminal clasp segment short, greatly swollen near the middle; 

 dorsal plate long, the lobes divided, parallel, broadly rounded; 

 ventral plate short, broadly and roundly emarginate, the lobes well 

 separated, narrowly rounded. Harpes apparently truncate, irregular. 

 Type Cecid. 504. 



Asynapta americana Felt 

 1912 Felt, E. P. N. Y. Ent. Soc. Jour. 20: 103-4 



This species, easily separated by the shorter antennal stem, was 

 taken at Hazelton, Pa., April 13, 1910, by Dr W. S. Dietz. 



Asynapta mangiferae Felt 



1909 Felt, E. P. Ent. News, 20: 299-300 



This West Indian species was reared by Prof. H. A. Ballou, 

 government entomologist, from maggots found under the bark of 

 small twigs of grafted Mango, probably Mangifera indie a. 



Asynapta saliciperda Felt 



1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 421 



1909 Ent. Soc. Ont. 39th Rep't, p. 46 



Several examples of this species were reared in early April 1907, 

 from a typical dry and old Rhabdophaga batatas O. S. 

 gall received from Mr L. H. Weld of Evanston, 111. 



Male. Length 2 mm. Antennae as long as the body, sparsely 

 haired, fuscous yellowish, 19 segments, the fifth with a stem three- 

 fourths the length of the subcylindric basal enlargement, which 

 latter has a length nearly twice its diameter; terminal segment 

 produced, with a length nearly five times its diameter, tapering 

 to a narrowly rounded apex. Palpi; the first segment short, stout, 

 narrowly oval, the second broad, subrect angular, with a length 

 fully one-half greater than the first, the third long, rather stout, 

 with a length about twice the third, the fourth slender and about 

 three-fourths longer than the third. Face fuscous yellowish, 

 mesonotum dark brown, submedian fines sparsely haired, yellowish, 

 scutelrum reddish orange, postscutellum fuscous orange, abdomen 

 a nearly uniform reddish orange, the segments sparsely haired 

 posteriorly, membrane and pleurae reddish orange, genitalia light 

 iuscous yellowish, wings hyaline, costa yellowish brown; halteres 

 yellowish basally, reddish orange apically, coxae reddish orange, 

 femora, tibiae and tarsi a light fuscous yellowish. Claws long, 

 ? lender, evenly curved, unidentate, the pulvilli a little shorter than 

 than the claws. Basal clasp segment long, stout, roundly truncate, 

 terminal clasp segment short, slender basally, greatly swollen near 

 the distal third and with a heavily chitinized dentate apex. 



Female. Length 1.5 mm. Antennae extending to the second 

 abdominal segment, sparsely haired, dark brown; 19 segments, the 



