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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Colpodia terrena Felt 



1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 416 



The female was taken on quack grass, Agropyron repens, 

 at Albany, N. Y., July 7, 1906. 



Female. Length 1.35 mm. Antennae a little shorter than the 

 body, sparsely haired, light brown, yellowish basally; 13 segments, 

 the fifth with a stem about one-fourth the length of the cylindric 

 basal enlargement, which latter has a length five times its diameter; 

 terminal segment somewhat produced and nan-owly fused with the 



Fig. 14 Colpodia terrena; palpus, enlarged (original) 



preceding. Palpi ; first segment long, slender, the second with a length 

 three times its diameter, the third subequal, the fourth one-half longer 

 than the third. Face yellowish. Mesonotum slaty brown with a 

 broad, median, sooty yellow stripe continued laterally and expanded 

 posteriorh'. Scutellrmi and postscutellum dull reddish. Abdomen 

 a yellowish brown, sparsely clothed with fine hairs. Wings hyaline, 

 costa light brown. Halteres pale yellowish basally, fuscous reddish 

 apically. Legs a nearly uniform fuscous straw, tarsi slightly darker; 



Fig. 15 Colpodia terrena; lateral view of apex of the abdomen and 

 ovipositor, enlarged (orig"nal) 



claws stout, strongly curved, distincth^ enlarged subapically, the 

 pulviUi shorter than the claws. 0\-ipositor short, terminal lobe 

 broad, broadly rounded. Type Cecid. 525. 



