I56 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Colpodia carolinae Felt 



1907 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. no, p. 145 (separate, p. 49) (Porri- 



condyla) 



1908 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 417 



One male was taken on the window of a forest hut at Davidson's 

 River, N. C, September 26, 1906. 



Male. Length 1 .3 mm. Antennae one-half longer than the body , 

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

 fifth with a stem twice the length of the basal cylindric enlargement, 

 the latter with a length hardly twice its diameter; terminal segment 

 subcorneal. Palpi; the first segment curved, slender and about as 

 long as the slightly stouter second and the subequal third, the fourth 

 nearly twice the length of the third. Face yellowish. Mesonotum 

 fuscous yellowish, submedian lines yellowish, the area between the 

 submedian lines distinctly lighter than the sublateral areas. Scutel- 

 lum reddish brown, postscutellum yellowish. Abdomen fuscous 

 yellowish, genitalia slightly fuscous. Wings (Plate 4, figure 2) 

 hyaline, costa light brown. Halteres yellowish basally, fuscous 

 apically. Legs a nearly uniform yellowish fuscous, claws probably 

 simple. Genitalia, basal clasp segment stout, obliquely truncate; 

 terminal clasp segment rather stout, with a conspicuous subapical 

 spine. Dorsal plate slender, deeply emarginate, the lobes broadly 

 rounded, ventral plate obliquely narrowed posteriorly, deeply em- 

 arginate, the lobes subacute. Harpes heavily chitinized distally, 

 with a strongly curved, sublateral tooth and an equally heavy sub- 

 median chitinous tooth; style strongly curved. (Plate 5, figure 1). 

 Type Cecid. ai624. 



Colpodia capitata Felt 



1914 Felt, E. P. N. Y. Ent. Soc. Jour. 22:125 



The midge is easily separated from the allied C. carolinae 

 Felt by the longer basal enlargement of the flagellate antennal seg- 

 ments and the peculiar genitalia. It was taken August 1909 by Mr 

 C. P. Alexander at Woodworth's lake in the Adirondacks, altitude 

 1550 feet. A detailed description is given in the citation above. 



Colpodia pectinata Felt 



1907 Felt, E. P. New Species of Cecidomyiidae II, p. 23 (Biyocrypta) 



1908 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 304 



This peculiar species was reared at Albany, N. Y., August 8, 1907 

 from a jar containing basswood, T i 1 i a. am eric an a, Leaves 

 bearing irregular, subglobular swellings at the base or along the 

 midrib, ft is probable that tins insed emerged from the debris 

 in the jar. 



