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METELASMUS n. gen. of Streblidae. 



Near Strcbla but the wings reduced to somewhat oval pads 

 less than half as long as the thorax. Head depressed, some- 

 what bell-shaped, fringed around the margins with setae, the 







posterior end fringed with flattened spines below, at the sides 

 and on the hind angles of the upper side ; no antennae, eyes 

 or ocelli. Thorax somewhat injured in the single specimen 



Metelasmus psendopteriis Coquillett. 



before me, but apparently of the form shown in the figure; 

 sternum sparsely covered with short, bristly hairs and fringed 

 with setae around the front end, medium sulcus three-branched 

 posteriorly. Abdomen and legs as in the figure. Type, the 

 following species: 



Metelasmus pseudopterus n. sp. 



Head brownish yellow, a transverse pair of pale yellow spots near the 

 middle; body dark yellow, legs pale yellow; aborted wings dark yellow 

 and with a pale yellow costal spot before the middle of each; spines 

 and bristles, like the tarsal claws, black; length 2.5 mm. 



Sapucay, Paraguay, South America. A single specimen col- 

 lected on a bat, Artibius litiiratus. Type No. 10293. U. S. 

 National Museum. 



