102 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
Male. Length 1 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 asin the male. Type Cecid. a1696. 
Contarinia gossypii Felt 
1908 Felt, E. P. Ent. News, 19:210-11 
£908) ———_——._ N. ¥. State Mus. Bul? 12499. 392 
1908 Ballou, H. A. Agric. News (W. I.), 7:154 
1909 ———————_ Agric. News (W. I.), 8:10; 58-59 
1909 —————— West Ind. Bul., 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. 
