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erous but represented some interesting species. A few species 

 have been recorded in another paper but the more interesting 

 forms taken on the lower and middle Amazon are herein des- 

 cribed. A number of species hitherto known only from Guiana 

 have been secured by Mr. Parish on this trip. 



The types of the new species are preserved in the collection 

 of the writer. 



Teucholabis decora sp. n. 



Rostrum longer than the head; head black; mesonotal praescutum 

 reddish orange with three black spots; pleura orange with a large black 

 area on the mesepisternum; fore and middle femora yellow basally, hind 

 legs entirely black; wings subhyaline with cell Sc, a spot at the wing-base, 

 narrow seams along the cord and outer end of cell ist Mi, and the wing- 

 apex dark brown. 



cf. Wing about 6.8 mm. Rostrum long and slender, a little longer 

 than the head, black; mouthparts black. Antennae with the scapal seg- 

 ments dark brown; flagellum broken. Head shiny brownish black, the 

 occiput a little paler. 



Mesonotal praescutum shiny reddish orange with three black spots re- 

 presenting the anterior ends of the usual dark stripes; median spot cunei- 

 form, the smaller lateral spots more oval; remainder of the dorsum reddish 

 orange. Pleura orange with a large, shiny black area occupying about all 

 of the mesepisternum and the sides of the mesosternum; metepisternum 

 black. Median area of the sternum orange. 



Halteres brownish black. Legs with the fore and middle coxae and 

 trochanters yellow, the hind coxae and trochanters black; femora black; 

 the basal third (fore legs) to half (middle legs) obscure yellow; hind legs 

 entirely black; tibiae and tarsi black. 



Wings subhyaline, cell Sc dark brown; base of the wing, surrounding 

 the humeral crossvein and arculus, dark brown; a narrow dark brown 

 seam along the cord and outer end of cell ist M; wing-apex with a mod- 

 erately broad brown band, this including about the outer quarter of ce'l 

 2nd RI, the outer third of R 3 and R- ; the outer half of 2nd Mi and M 3 ; 

 veins dark brownish black. Venation: Sci ending before r; r in direct 

 alignment with the inner ends of cells R 3 and R*,; cell ist M irregul.ir, 

 the distal end strongly widened, m arcuated, a little longer than the deflec- 

 tion of M 3 ; basal deflection of Cu\ about one-half its own length beyond 

 the fork of M. 



Abdomen destroyed by ants, only the black hypopygium remaining. 

 Male hypopygium with the pleurites short, stout , with three pleural appen- 

 dages, two of which are setigerous and with the apices acutely pointed, the 

 larger of these two with a powerful lateral spine and a fringe of lon.n ivddish 

 hairs between this spine and the apical point; the third and largest a 



