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extending from each humerus to the wing densely white pruinose, body 

 elsewhere and the front polished, the mesonotum somewhat scabrous; 

 hind margin of wings broadly grayish hyaline, base of the remainder yel 

 lowish, changing to brown outwardly, a white fascia crosses the wing mid 

 way between the hind cross-vein and the tip of the wing, the latter nar 

 rowly bordered with whitish ; second vein extending rather close to the 

 first and to the costa. Length, 3 mm. 



Three specimens from Chinandega, Nicaragua. 

 Type. No. 7806, U. S. National Museum. 



Family OSCINID^E. 

 Chlorops capillata, n. sp. 



Yellow, the upper apical angle of the third antennal joint, an ocellar 

 dot, a dot behind and another below each humerus, black, apices of tarsi 

 brown, mesonotum marked with three reddish yellow vittae, antennal arista 

 except at base white. Front rather strongly produced forward, frontal 

 triangle polished, almost wholly covered with short hairs, without a 

 median furrow, unusually broad, the sides strongly convex, extending to 

 lower edge of the front where they form a blunt point; third joint of 

 antennae slightly longer than wide, the upper edge concave, the lower 

 convex, the apex bluntly rounded; cheeks about one-fifth as wide as the 

 eye-height. Body somewhat polished, not pruinose, the scutellum con 

 vex above. Wings hyaline, third and fourth veins diverging, hind cross- 

 vein nearly three times its length beyond the small. Length 2 to 3 mm. 



Three specimens. Granada, Nicaragua ; Georgia, and North 

 Carolina ; the specimens from the two last-mentioned localities 

 were collected by H. K. Morrison. 



Type. No. 7938, U. S. National Museum. 



SOME NEW OSMUND IN THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL 



MUSEUM. 



BY E. S. G. TITUS. 

 Ashmeadiella schwarzi, n. sp. 



9. Length 5 mm. Black, clothed with white pubescence, punctuation 

 very dense and regular, more separate on thorax dorsally. Head, except 

 occiput, densely clothed with long pubescence, thorax bare discally, scu 

 tellum with sparse pubescence, abdominal fascise regular and distinct, last 

 segment with fine short hair. Legs with exceptionally sparse pubescence, 

 tarsi slightly fuscous; mandibles tipped with red. 



$. 3.5-4.5 mm. Closely resembles the female, more stoutly built; 

 tarsi, especially claw-joint, and claws fuscous. Apical abdominal teeth all 

 short, the lateral teeth sharp, middle teeth rounded; all the teeth are 



