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extends from costa just beyond apex of first vein to the discal cell just be 

 yond the small cross vein, a round spot of the same color in the submar- 

 ginal cell near its middle, crossing this cell and encroaching slightly on 

 the marginal cell, a smaller round spot in the first posterior cell slightly 

 before the hind cross-vein, a subtriangular spot crosses the second poster 

 ior cell at its middle and extends a short distance into the first posterior 

 cell ; finally a similar spot crosses the third posterior cell a short distance 

 before its apex and extends over half way across the discal cell; halteres 

 light yellow. Length nearly 3 mm. 



A female specimen from Champerico, Guatemala. 

 Type. No. 7803. U. S. National Museum. 



Family TRYPETID^. 

 Icterica apicalis, n. sp. 



Head yellow, frontal vitta reddish yellow, hairs and bristles black, the 

 hairs on the front and a row of flattened bristles around upper half of oc 

 ciput, also a pair in front of the vertical bristles yellowish white; body 

 dark reddish yellow (apparently injured by moisture) varied with lighter 

 yellow, the last segment of the abdomen chiefly black; scutellum bearing 

 four bristles; legs reddish yellow, the tibiae and tarsi lighter j'ellow; 

 wings narrow, of nearly a uniform width, dark brown, the central portion 

 from base of discal cell to slightly beyond its apex marked with about 34 

 yellow dots and small round spots, a yellow streak extends from apex of 

 first vein obliquely into the submarginal cell, a second yellow streak ex 

 tends from the extreme base of the wing through the anal and lower edge 

 of the second basal cell and into the bases of the discal and third poster 

 ior cells, enclosing a brown spot in the discal cell and cutting off a second 

 brown spot in the upper corner of this cell; the yellow coloring is pro 

 longed as a narrow, interrupted border to the fourth vein nearly to the 

 apex of the discal cell; extreme apex of wing and four drops along the 

 hind margin whitish hyaline, that at the apex with the inner edge almost 

 straight, extending from about midway between apices of the second and 

 third veins to a short distance below apex of fourth vein ; of the four 

 hyaline drops along the hind margin of the wing, one is near the middle 

 of the axillary cell, one is at the lower corner and a second is above the 

 middle of the third posterior cell, while the fourth is below the middle of 

 the second posterior cell; of the yellow dots and spots mentioned, only 

 two are in the second posterior cell, situated near its inner upper angle, 

 while the third posterior cell contains only one, situated slightly beyond 

 and above the middle of the cell ; halteres yellow. Length 5 mm. 



A male specimen from San Marcos, Nicaragua. 

 Type, NO. 7^04, U. S f National Museum. 



