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smaller, but no other differences are obvious. Nevertheless, I 

 should say quite distinct." — F. W. Edwards. 



Trentepohlia (Paramongoma) geniculata (Alexander) 



1914. Mongoma geniculata Alexander, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, vol. 40, p. 247. 



One female from Prata, Brazil, July 4, 1919 (H. S. Parish). The 

 species had been known only from British Guiana. 



Trentepohlia (Paramongoma) pallipes (Alexander) 



1914. Mongoma pallipes Alexander, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, vol. 40, pp. 

 247, 248. 



Teffe, Brazil, December 16, 1919 (H. S. Parish). Like the last, 



T. pallipes had previously been known only from British Guiana. 



Trentepohlia (Paramongoma) fuscipes sp. n. 



Wings with the costal and apical cells strongly infumed; legs 

 entirely dark brown; abdominal tergites dark brown, the sternites 

 paler. 



Male. — Length 7.8 mm.; wing 7.7 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi yellowish. Antennae with the scapal seg- 

 ments brownish yellow; flagellum dark brown. Front pale brown, 

 whitish pruinose; vertex dark brown. Mesonotal praescutum red- 

 dish brown, with two indistinct narrow brown lines; scutum obscure 

 yellow, the lobes dark brown; scutellum and postnotum dark brown. 

 Pleura brownish yellow. Halteres pale brown, the knobs darker. 

 Legs with the coxae and trochanters yellowish testaceous ; remainder 

 of the legs uniformly dark brown, the tarsi insensibly paler. Wings 

 subhyaUne; stigma small, subcircular, dark brown; cells C and Sc 

 brown; cells 2nd Ri, Rt, Ri and the outer two-thirds of R^ strongly 

 infumed; a broad brown seam along Rs; basal half of cell M brown- 

 ish, this color continued distad along vein Cu; cord and outer end 

 of cell 1st Mz narrowly and indistinctly seamed with brown; veins 

 dark brown. Venation: almost exactly as in T. pallipes (Alex- 

 ander). Abdomen with the tergites dark brown: hypopygium and 

 sternites brownish yellow. 



Habitat. — Brazil. 



Holotype, cf , Teffe, December 19, 1919 (H. S. Parish). 



Trentepohlia fuscipes belongs to the hromeliadicola group of the 

 genus despite its uniformly darkened legs. The wing-pattern and 

 venation agree closely with T. pallipes (Alexander). 



Trentepohha (Paramongoma) femorata sp. n. 



Wings subhyahne, the sector and vein Cu broadly seamed with 

 brown; wing apex indistinctly darkened; legs dark brown, the 

 femoral tips narrowly but distinctly brownish yellow; abdomen 

 dark brown, segments two to four with the apical half broadly 

 obscure yellowish. 



Female. — Length 12.5 mm.; wing 9 mm. 



