REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST I917 



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Pupa. The newly formed pupa is of a uniform deep red color, 

 the head and appendages turning black before the appearance of 

 the fly. This pupa is inclosed in a delicate, muddy brown envelop 

 resembling the " flax seed " of the Hessian fly. 



Male. Length 2 mm. Antennae about as long as the body, rather 

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

 and one-half and as long as their diameters respectively; terminal 

 segment, basal enlargement subglobose, the basal portion of the stem 

 short, the distal enlargement broadly oval, with a very short, stout 

 process apically. Palpi; the first segment stout, subrectangular, 



Fig. 33 Contarinia sorghicola, side view of abdo- 

 men showing the retracted ovipositor (enlarged) , A tip (more 

 enlarged, both original) 



with a length nearly twice its diameter, the second a little longer, 

 more slender than the first, the third more than twice the length 

 of the second, much more slender. Face yellow; thorax orange red, 

 the center of the mesonotum and the spot crossing the plurae and 

 enlarging on the sternum, black; abdomen orange red; wings hyaline; 

 costa light brown. Legs light brown; claws long, slender, strongly 

 curved, the pulvilli a little shorter than the claws. Genitalia; dorsal 

 plate short, broad, broadly and triangularly emarginate, the lobes 

 broadly rounded. 



Female. Length 2 mm. Antennae extending to the third abdominal 

 segment, sparsely haired, light brown; 14 segments, the fifth very 

 short, stout, subcylindric, the basal enlargement with a length 



