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except for the last two posterior segments ; two laterals, also dark 

 brown, running the full length of the abdomen and shaded into the 

 other markings of the thorax ; two lying about midway between the 

 lateral and ventral lines, light brown and continuing only to the wing- 

 cases. The ventral line is very slightly marked. 



Considerable variation is shown in the color of the markings and 

 also in the degree of re-curvature of the palpi-cases. 



Contarinia gossypii n. sp. 



BY E. P. FELT, Albany, N. Y. 



This species is injurious to cotton in the British West Indies, 

 and was received from Mr. Henry A. Ballou, Entomologist to 

 the Imperial Department of Agriculture, Barbadoes, through 

 Dr. L. O. Howard, at whose request it is described : 



Male. Length i mm. Antennae about twice the length of the body, 

 thickly haired, light brown, 14 segments ; the first broadly obconic, 

 the second flattened basally, subhemispheric ; the others binodose, the 

 third and fourth slightly fused, the fifth having the basal portion of 

 the stem with a length three times its diameter, the distal part with 

 a length four times its diameter ; the enlargements with the membrane 

 thickly dotted with chitinous points ; the basal one subglobose, flattened 

 basally, with a sub-basal whorl of long, stout setae and a subapical 

 circmnfilum; the loops of the latter long and extending to the middle 

 of the distal enlargement, which latter is slightly produced, broadly 

 oval, with a thick whorl of long, stout, curved setae near the middle 

 and a subapical circumfilum, the loops of the latter distinct and ex- 

 tending to the middle of the basal enlargement of the following seg- 

 ment ; terminal segment with the basal enlargement subglobose, the 

 basal portion of the stem somewhat produced, slender; the distal en- 

 largement slightly produced and bearing apically a long slender fin- 

 ger-like process. Palpi quadriarticulate ; the first segment appar- 

 ently short, stout, irregularly subquadrate; the second a little 

 longer, broadly ovate; the third fully half longer than the second, 

 more slender ; the fourth as long as the third, more slender, all rather 

 thickly clothed with coarse setae. Face fuscous, yellowish, eyes large, 

 black; mesonotum dark brown, the submedian lines yellowish; scu- 

 tellum fuscous yellowish ; postscutellum yellowish ; abdomen green- 

 ish yellowish, the segments posteriorly rather thickly mar- 

 gined with coarse setae ; wings hyaline, costa pale straw ; subcosta 

 uniting with the anterior margin near the basal third, the third vein 



