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Abdomen dark brownish black, the extreme tergal apices yellow; 

 sternites yellow with brownish black rings. 



Female) Similar, the ovipositor and a ring on the 8th abdominal 

 segment, yellow. 



Holotype, $ , Callanga, Peru. 



Allotype, 9 , Callanga, Peru. 



Paratype, 9 , Callanga, Peru. 



The two types in the Hungarian National Museum, the para- 

 type in the author's collection. 



This handsome species agrees most closely with simplex 

 Wied. [Aussereur Zweifl. Ins., vol. i, pp. 549, 550; (Limno- 

 bia}] but is much smaller, antennae not yellowish brown and 

 the leg-pattern quite different. From molesta O. S. (Biologia 

 Cent. Amer. ; vol. i, pp. 6, 7), it differs in its reddish head; 

 from gracilis O. S. (1. c., p. 7), it differs in its thoracic pattern 

 and much smaller size. 



Teucholabis munda, sp. n. (PI. XVI, Fig. 7). 



Head dark brown above; pronotum yellow; thorax shiny black; 

 wings hyaline with a broad brown apex and brown marks along the 

 cord; Rs very short, arcuated, its origin opposite the tip of Sci. 



Male. Length, 5.5 mm. ; wing, 5.8 mm. 



Rostrum yellow, palpi brown; antennae with the basal segment yel- 

 low, remaining segments rounded oval, dark brownish, front yel- 

 lowish, vertex and occiput very dark brown becoming lighter and 

 brighter on the genae. 



Pronotum very light yellow, not very shining. Mesonotum entirely 

 dark shiny black. Pleurae black. Halteres, stem dark brownish black, 

 the knob light yellow. 



Legs, fore coxae and trochanters light yellow, femora with the basal 

 third yellowish darkening into brownish black apically, tibiae and tarsi 

 dark brownish black; middle coxae brown, trochanters yellow, femora 

 brownish yellow, the tip darker, tibiae and tarsi dark brown; hind 

 coxae black, trochanters brownish yellow, femora brownish yellow 

 gradually darkening to the brown tip, tibiae and tarsi dark brownish 

 black. 



Wings subhyaline, the whole tip of the wing infuscated with light 

 brown, the inner margin of this infuscation including the extreme tip 

 of cell 1st M2; stigma large, dark brown, sending a narrow brown 

 seam along the cord; an indistinct light brown suffusion in cell Mi, 

 and tips of the two anal cells. Venation (see Plate xvi, fig. 7) : Rs 

 short and very arcuated at its origin, its base opposite the tip of SVi. 



