REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 1914 163 



mostly pale yellowish, tarsi light fuscous. Claws long, slender, 

 strongly curved, unidentate, the pulvilli shorter than the claws. 

 Ovipositor pale orange, upturned, about as long as the abdomen, 



Fig. 20 Asynapta s a 1 i c i p e r d a; tip of ovipositor, enlarged (original) 



the terminal lobes long, biarticulate, the terminal segment narrowly 

 oval. Type Cecid. ai8i5a. 



Asynapta frosti Felt 

 1913 Felt, E. P. Psyche, 20: 135, 143 



Described from a specimen found by C. A. Frost, Framingham, 

 Mass., in a jar containing sumac twigs and bees' nests June i, iqio. 



Asynapta caudata Felt 



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



A male was taken on a window at Albany, N. Y., June 26, 1907. 



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

 sparsely haired, presumably pale yellowish; 21 segments, the fifth 

 with a stem as long as the subcylindric basal enlargement, which 

 latter has a length about one-half greater than its diameter; the 

 penultimate segment subcylindric, sessile, the terminal one pro- 

 duced, irregularly subcorneal. Palpi; the first segment long, slender, 

 with a length fully four times the diameter, the second about as long 

 as the first, stouter, the third one-half longer than the second, more 

 slender and the fourth a little longer than the third. Mesonotum 

 presumably dark brown with yellowish, sparsely haired submedian 

 lines. Scutellum and postscutellum probably yellowish brown, the 

 abdomen presumably reddish brown. Wings hyaline, costa pale 

 yellowish. Halteres probably pale yellowish. Legs presumably 

 a pale straw; claws short, slender, strongly curved, unidentate, 

 the pulvilli longer than the claws. Genitalia; basal clasp segment 

 stout, obliquely rounded and with a conspicuous internal angle 

 apically; terminal clasp segment stout, greatly swollen near the 

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