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pratensis, July 8 and 28, 1886 by the then Division of Ento- 

 mology at Washington. 



Female. Length 1.25 mm. Antennae as long as the body, ap- 

 parently naked, dark brown; 13 segments, the fifth subsessile, with 



Fig. 16 Colpodia pratensis, female; a, fifth and sixth antennal seg- 

 ments; b, lateral view of claw and tip of the last tarsal segment, enlarged 

 (original) 



a length six times its diameter; terminal segment reduced. Palpi; the 

 first segment long, subrectangular, the second about one-half the length 

 of the first, the third a little longer than the second and the fourth 

 one-half longer than the third; face yellowish fuscous. Mesonotum 

 dark reddish brown, the posterior median area reddish, submedian 

 lines pale reddish, sparsely ornamented with fine setae. Scutellum 

 dark reddish with sparse apical setae, postscutellum a little darker. 

 Abdomen a nearly uniform dull brown, rather thickly clothed with 

 very fine, yellowish hairs. Costa light brown, halteres yellowish 

 transparent. Legs pale brown; claws stout, strongly curved, simple, 

 with a subapical, fusiform swelling. Ovipositor short, terminal 

 lobes suboval. Type Cecid. 256. 



Colpodia porrecta Felt 

 1 9 14 Felt, E. P. N. Y. Ent. Soc. Jour. 22:126 



The females are easily distinguished by the unusually long stems 

 of the flagellate antennal segments. They were collected August 21, 

 [909 by Mr C. P. Alexander at Woodworth's lake in the Adirondacks, 

 altitude 1570 feet. A detailed description is given in the citation 

 above. 



