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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Microcerata cockerelli Felt 

 1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 310 



This species, placed at our disposal through the courtesy of the 

 United States National Museum, swarmed at Mesilla, N. M., in 

 August and was collected by Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell. 



Male. Length 1.75 mm. Antennae short, sparsely haired, dark 

 brown; 8 segments, the fourth flattened basally and apically, with 

 a length three-fourths its diameter, tapering, the other segments 

 successively shorter, the terminal one fusiform, with a constriction 



23 Antenna of male Microcerata johnsoni, enlarged. (Original) 



near the distal fourth. Palpi ; the first segment stout, the second 

 a little longer and more slender, the third one-half longer and more 

 slender than the second and the fourth nearly twice the length of 

 the third. Body dark brown. Wings hyaline, costa light brown. 

 Legs light fuscous yellowish ; claws stout, slightly curved, simple, 

 the pulvilli as long as the claws. Genitalia ; basal clasp segment 

 long, slender, slightly curved, roundly truncate ; terminal clasp seg- 

 ment long, tapering, the apex obtuse, spined; dorsal plate long, 

 broad, broadly and roundly emarginate, the lobes divergent ; ventral 

 plate long, broad, tapering, irregularly rounded. Harpes long, 

 slender, subacute; style long, slender, acute. Type Cecid. 932. 



