使用时为什么会出现此错误async？

我的代码：

bot.onText(/\/start/, async  msg => {
  const opts = {
    parse_mode: 'Markdown' ,
    reply_markup: JSON.stringify({
      keyboard: StartKeyboard,
      resize_keyboard: true,
      one_time_keyboard: true
    })
  };
  await bot.sendMessage(msg.chat.id, 'Hi', opts);
});

错误：

bot.onText(/\/start/, async  msg => {
                      ^^^^^
SyntaxError: missing ) after argument list

我正在使用带有“依赖项”的node.js v6.11.0：

{ "babel-polyfill": "^6.23.0",
  "cheerio": "^1.0.0-rc.2",
  "dotenv": "^4.0.0",
  "firebase": "^4.1.2",
  "firebase-admin": "^5.0.0",
  "node-telegram-bot-api": "^0.27.1",
  "request": "^2.81.0" },