REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST IQI7 109 
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 2mm. 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, 







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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. Length2mm. 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 
