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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



quadrate lobe at the internal basal half; terminal clasp segment 

 stout; dorsal plate broad, deeply and triangularly incised, the lobes 



Fig. 68 Coquillettomyialobata, 

 male palpus (enlarged, original) 



Fig. 69 C o - 

 quillettomyia 

 lob at a, side view 

 of anterior claw 

 of male (enlarged, 

 original) 



narrowly rounded; ventral plate long, slender, broadly and slightly 

 emarginate. Type Cecid. 176. (See plate 10, fig. 3) 



Fig. 70 Coquillettomyia lobata, palpus of female (enlarged, original) 



Coquillettomyia texana Felt 



1908 Felt, E, P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 398 



The male was reared September 3, 1907 by E. S. Tucker from a 

 cage containing young oats, Avena sativa. 



Male. Length 1.5 mm. Antennae one-half longer than the body, 

 thickly haired, light brown; 14 segments, the fifth with stems each 

 two and one-half times their diameter; terminal segment produced, 

 the basal portion of the stem with a length six times its diameter, 

 the distal enlargement with a length two and one-half times its diam- 

 eter and apically a long, fingerlike process. Palpi; the first segment 

 short, stout, the second with a length three times its diameter, 

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

 than the second. Mesonotum probably light brown. Scutellum, 



