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scutellum at base; postnotum silvery pruinosr with a capillary brown 

 line; a brown mark before midlength on either side of median line. 

 Pleura gray, longitudinally striped with dark brown, the most conspicu- 

 ous dorsal in position, extending from the cervical sel/rites to the post- 

 notum ; dorso^pleural region variegated huffy and brown; mesosternum 

 dark brown. Haltercs rather elongate, yellow, the* knobs dark brown. 

 Legs with the coxae dark brown, the apices narrowly gray; trochanters 

 obscure yellow, the inner face at apex dark brown ; femora brownish 

 yellow ; a narrow dark brown subterminal ring, followed and preceded 

 by a clearer yellow annulus ; tibiae and tarsi yellow, the terminal tarsal 

 segments brownish black. Wings pale yellowish, variegated with brown; 

 darker brown areas along the costa at h. above the arculus ; above ori- 

 gin of Rs\ at the supernumerary cross-vein in cell C ; tips of Sc\, R\ 

 and R2 ; a very extensive paler brown ocelliform pattern covers the win- 1 

 disk, circles having their centers at the origin of Rx ; fork of A'.? ; fork 

 of R2+3; m; fork of .1/14-2; at basal deflection of Cn\ and at 

 the ends of the posterior cells; a series of ten to twelve more or less 

 confluent spots in cell Cu\ a series of brown dashes along the margin 

 of the anal cells, the base of cell 1st A unicolorous. Venation : Rs 

 angulated and spurred at origin ; /\2+3 a little less than one-half the 

 basal section of R2; r about one and one-half times its length from 

 the tip of R\ ; cell 1st M2 rectangular, widened distally ; basal deflection 

 of Cn\ at or before midlength of cell 1st A/2; petiole of cell .1/1 shorter 

 than cell. 



Abdominal tergites dark brown ; sternites obscure brownish yellow. 



Habitat: Argentina. Holotvpc, $ , Quebrada Famailla, 

 Tucuman, altitude 1600 meters, October 16, 1920 (V. Weiser). 

 Allotopotypc, 9 . Paratopotypes, 3 <? 9 ; paratype. 9 . Sauce 

 Gaucho, Tucuman, altitude 500 meters, October 12, 1920 ( Y. 

 Weiser). 



Limnophila subfuscata new species. 



Antennae short : flagellum bicolorous : head light gray ; mesonotum 

 grayish buff, praescutum and scutum trilineate with dark brown ; scu- 

 tellum and postnotum dark brown medially ; pleura with a dorsal longi- 

 tudinal dark brown stripe that continues to the postnotum: legs yellow, 

 the femoral tips broadly infnsrated, bases and tips of tibiae narrowly 

 infuscated; wings subhyaline, heavily spotted with brown, the radial 

 cells almost uniformly washed with pale brown; first section of R2 

 short ; abdomen obscure yellow, the caudal margins of the segments 

 brown. 



$ . Length 9.4 mm. ; wing 8.5 mm. Rostrum brown, pruinose ; palpi 

 dark brown. Antennae with the first scapal segment brown, gray prui- 

 nose ; second scapal segment brownish testaceous ; flagellum bicolorous, 

 tin- base of the segments brownish black, the apices obscure yellow, 

 the terminal flagellar segments more uniformlv darkened; antennae 

 short, the flagellar segments oval. Head gray, bluish gray on the occi- 

 put; a short, linear, brown, median line between the eyes. 



Pronotum huffy with a median brown line and small irrorations ol 

 the same color; prosternum separating the fore coxae. Mesonotal 

 praescutum grayish buff with thre brown -Iripes. the anterior end of 

 the median stripe gray pruinose; thoracic inter-spaces with a few con- 

 spicuous brown spots; scutum grayish buff, trilineate with dark brown; 

 scutellum and postnotum .uray, the former with a median dark brown 

 line, the latter with a median brown spot at the base; lateral and cau- 

 dal margins of the median sclcrite of the postnotum dark velvety brown. 



