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Colpodia pinea Felt 



1907 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. no, p. 145 (separate, p. 48) 



(Porricondyla) 



1908 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 416 



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^^906 on a pine, the heartwood of which was infested by M o n - 

 ardia lignivora. 



Male. Length 2 mm. Antennae longer than the body, sparsely 

 haired, yellowish brown, yellowish basally; 16 segments, the fifth 

 with a stem one-half longer than the subglobtilar enlargement. 

 Palpi; the first segment slender, elongate, second and third a little 

 longer and stouter, and the fourth slender and one-fourth longer 

 than the preceding two. Mesonotum light brown, yellowish pos- 

 teriorly, submedian lines broad, yellowish. Scutellum light reddish, 

 postscutellum yellowish. Abdomen pale salmon, the color sUghtly 

 deeper on the basal and antepenultimate segments; genitalia fuscous 

 yellowish. Wings hyaline, costa light brown. Halteres yellowish 

 basall}^ light fuscous apically. Coxae pale salmon, legs a nearly 

 uniform light fuscous yellowish, all the tarsi missing; claws probably 

 simple. Genitalia; basal clasp segment stout, produced internally 

 and with a conspicuous curved submedian tooth extending posteriorly 

 almost as far as the terminal clasp segment ; the latter stout, broadly 

 rounded apically and with a subapical comb. Dorsal plate broad, 

 narrowly emarginate, the lobes broadly rounded, obliquely trun- 

 cate, setose; ventral plate apparently composed of two narrow, 

 widely separated setose lobes. Harpes heavy, converging, fused 

 distally; style short, stout, narrowly rounded. (Plate 5, figure 2.) 

 Type Cecid. ai62 2. 



Colpodia comuta n. sp. 



The male described below was reared April 27, 191 1 from a large 

 collection of oak spangle galls, probably those of Neuroterus 

 umbilicatus in which was a small amount of debris. This 

 material was collected October 31, 19 10 by Miss Cora H. Clarke 

 at the Arnold arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Mass. 



Male. Length 1.5 mm. Antennae one-fourth longer than the 

 body, sparsely haired, dark brown, the stems semitransparent ; 

 16 segments, the fifth with a stem one-half longer than the sub- 

 cylindric basal enlargement, which latter has a length about twice 

 its diameter; terminal segment reduced, narrowly oval. Palpi; 

 first segment subquadrate, the second narrowly oval, the third with 

 a length about twice its diameter, the fourth probably one-half 

 longer than the third. Mesonotum shining dark brown, the sub- 

 median lines sparsely haired. Scutellum fuscous yellowish, sparsely 

 setose, postscutellum yellowish brown. Abdomen reddish brown; 

 genitalia fuscous. Wings hyaHne, costa dark brown. Halteres 



