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brown band running across the pleurae just over the bases of the coxae; 

 it is only about one-third as wide as the broad pale band separating 

 the two dark pleural stripes. Halteres, basal half of the stem brown; 

 remainder, including the knob, light yellow. Legs : coxte white ; tro- 

 chanters and femora dark brownish-black, the extreme apices of the 

 latter white; tibiae and tarsi dark brownish-black; the tarsi rather 

 lighter. 



Wings clear bluish-hyaline; veins light brown, C. and Sc. more yel- 

 lowish; stigma large, rounded oval, dark brown; components of the 

 cord and the outer end of cell 1st M 2 black, the membrane adjoining 

 suffused with darker. All of the longitudinal veins are faintly mar- 

 gined with very pale brown. Venation as in pleuralis. (See fig. i.) 



Abdomen. Tergum, light yellowish, especially bright on the lateral 

 margins of the sclerites ; apices of the sclerites dark brownish-black; 

 sternum dull yellow, apices and lateral margins of the sclerites brown 

 Hypopygium (see fig. 2}, described below, in key. 



Holotype, male, Igarape-assu, Para, Brazil; February i, 



1912 (H. S. Parish). 



Allotype, female, Igarape-assu, 

 Para, Brazil; February 7, 1912 

 (H. S. Parish). 



Paratype, 18 females, 2 males, 

 Igarape-assu, Para, Brazil ; Jan- 

 uary 25 to February 7, 1912 (H. 

 S. Parish). 



Types in Cornell University, 

 except 5 female paratypes in au- 

 thor's collection and two in Coll. 

 U. S. National Museum. Two 

 females, in poor condition, are 

 referred to this new species. 

 They are from Paramaribo, 



Hypopygium of Gonomvia (Leipo- Dutch Guiaiia (H. Polall, Coll.), 

 neura) amazona n. sp. Ventral aspect. . , ^ 



a, pleural pieces; b, dorsal apical appen- and are in the U. O. Nat. MU- 

 dage ; c, ventral apical appendage ; d, 

 intermediate apical appendage; e, dor- SCUm. 

 sal gonapophyse ; /, ventral gonapop- 

 hyse; g, guard of the penis. i he following Comparison Will 



point out the differences between the species : 



pleuralis Will. (Antilles). 



Trochanter and femur light yellow, femur light yellowish, sub- 

 apically brown, tip light yellow. Lower pleural stripe broad, more 

 than one-half as wide as the pale one above it. Pleural stripe very 

 dark brown, clear cut. Wings with uniform veins; cord not seamed 

 with darker. Base of flagellum dark. Hypopygium: (See figs. 3, 4.) 

 the eighth sternite convex; ninth sternite with each of the lateral 



