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Male. Length i mm. Antennae a little longer than the body, 

 sparsely haired, pale straw; 14 segments, the fifth with stems one 

 and two and one-half times their diameters, respectively; terminal 

 segment, distal enlargement greatly produced, narrowly oval; 

 apically a slender, fingerlike, narrowly rounded process. Palpi; 

 the first segment rather slender, subrectangular, the second one- 

 half longer, a little stouter, the third a little longer and more slender 

 than the second, the fourth longer and more slender than the third; 

 face pale yellowish. Mesonotum fuscous, the submedian lines 

 indistinct. Scutellum and postscutellum fuscous. Abdomen a 

 fuscous greenish white or yellowish.. Wings hyaline, costa pale 

 straw ; halteres yellowish; coxae pale yellowish; femora, tibiae and 

 tarsi mostly brown ; claws long, slender, strongly curved, the pulvilli 

 nearly as long as the claws. 



Female. Length 1.25 mm. Antennae as long as the body, sparsely 

 haired, fuscous yellowish; 14 segments, the fifth with a stem about 

 one-fourth the length of the basal enlargement, which latter has a 

 length about twice its diameter; terminal segment produced, taper- 

 ing distally to a short, slender appendage. Palpi; the first segment 

 rather long, slender, subrectangular, the second longer, stouter, 

 tapering distally, the third one-half longer than the second, more 

 slender, the fourth a little longer and more slender than the third; 

 face yellowish. Mesonotum dark brown, the submedian lines thickly 

 haired. Scutellum, postscutellum and abdomen fuscous yellowish, 

 the segments margined posteriorly with fuscous hairs; membrane 

 and pleurae yellowish. Ovipositor yellowish. Coxae light fuscous 

 yellowish ; femora a fuscous straw ; tibiae fuscous straw, the posterior 

 pair yellowish basally; tarsi fuscous straw; claws slender, the pulvilli 

 as long as the claws. Ovipositor probably as long as the body, 

 terminal lobes long, slender, tapering, narrowly rounded, otherwise 

 nearly as in the male. Type Cecid. ai696. 



Contarinia gossypii Felt 



1908 Felt, E. P. Ent. News, 19:210-11 



1908 — ■ ■ N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 392 



1908 Ballou, H. A. Agric. News (W. I.), 7: 154 



1909 Agric. News (W. I.), 8:10; 58-59 



1909 — West Ind. Bui., 10: 1-28 



1909 Felt, E. P. Ent. Soc. Ont. 39th Rep't, p. 43 



This species appears to be quite destructive to cotton buds 

 throughout the Island of Antigua, British West Indies. Specimens 

 were received from Prof. Henry A. Ballou, entomologist of the 

 Imperial Department of Agriculture, Barbadoes, through Dr L. O. 

 Howard of the United States Bureau of Entomology. The first 

 indication of infestation, according to Professor Ballou, is the exces- 

 sive dropping of buds, produced by the numerous yellowish maggots 

 occurring therein, as many as 43 having been found in one bud. 



