172 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
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Male. Length .75 mm. Antennae fully twice as long as th 
body, thickly haired, pale brown; 14 segments, the fifth with stems 
each with a length two and one-half times their diameters; terminal 
segment, basal portion of stem slender, distal enlargement cylindric, 
with an appendage nearly as long. Palpi; the first segment sub- 
quadrate, the second twice the length of the first, stouter, the third 
as long as the second, more slender, the fourth one-half longer than’ 
the third, more slender; face yellowish. Mesonotum pale orange 
yellow. Scutellum, postscutellum and abdomen pale lemon yellow. 
Wings hyaline, costa pale brown, subcosta uniting with the margin 
at the basal fourth, the third vein curving distally, joins the margin’ 
slightly beyond the apex; halteres whitish transparent. Legs nearly’ 
uniform pale straw; claws slender, uniformly curved. Genitalia; 
basal clasp segment stout, at the basal third a subtriangular process; 
terminal clasp segment straight, swollen at the base, slender; dorsal 
plate broad, narrowly emarginate, the lobes obliquely and irregularly 
rounded; ventral plate narrow, deeply and triangularly emarginate, 
the lobes subtriangular, stout basally, tapering. Type Cecid. 191. | 
(See plate ro, fig. 7) 
Feltiella minuta Felt 
1907 Felt,E.P. N. Y. State Mus. Bul. 110, p. 127; Separate, p. 31 
(Mycodiplosis) 
1908 ————_ NN Y. State Mus. Bul. 124, p. 400 (Mycodiplosis) 
The male was taken June 14, 1906 on a window at Nassau, N. Y.) 
Male. Length .4mm. Antennae one-half longer than the body, 
thickly haired, light brown; 14 segments, the fifth with stems each 
twice their diameters; terminal segment, distal enlargement broadly 
rounded apically. Palpi; the first segment long, subquadrate, the 
second stouter, others missing. Mesonotum reddish brown. Scu- 
tellum fuscous yellowish. Abdomen reddish brown, the fourth and 
fifth segments fuscous. Genitalia pale yellowish. Wings hyaline, 
costa light brown. Halteres yellowish transparent. Legs pale 
brown; claws long, slender. Genitalia; basal clasp segment long, at 
the basal internal third, a rounded lobe; terminal clasp segment 
swollen basally; dorsal plate broad, short, broadly and roundly 
emarginate, the lobes broadly rounded; ventral plate broad, tapering, 
irregularly truncate; at the basal angles a pair of widely separated 
hairy lobes, possibly: modified harpes; style long, slender. Type 
Cecid. 290. 
Feltiella venatoria Felt 
1917 Felt, E.P. N.Y. Ent. Soc. Jour., 25: 195-96 
This species was reared August 22, 1916 by D. K. McMillan, 
assistant state entomologist for northern Illinois, who stated that 
the larvae were very efficient destroyers of red spider, Tetrany - 
chus telarius, and other species on the leaves of elm and 
hollyhock. This species is easily separated from others, having the 

