386 THE CANADIA.N ENTOMOLOGIST. 



vein is about the same length as the mid cross-vein, and distant about its 

 own length ; halteres white, a few dark scales on the knob. 



Length 2.5 mm. Taken June 25, 1905. Habitat, Cottabatto, Min- 

 danao, P. I. 



Described from four females sent by Lieut. E. B. Vedder, Asst. 

 Surgeon, U. S. A. The distinctive variation lies in the well-marked 

 lateral spots, and if it should happen that Theobald described from rubbed 

 specimens, that variation may disappear. 



Cidex Fortoricensis, n. sp. — $. Head dark, with a narrow median 

 line of ochraceous curved scales, light forked scales upon the occiput, and 

 reaching well up toward the vertex; the median curved scales followed by 

 light flat scales and a narrow stripe of dark flat scales on the side ; 

 antennae dark brown, verticels and pubescence brown, basal joint brown, 

 with a few flat lighter brown scales ; palpi dark brown, a few white scales 

 at the tips ; proboscis very long, dark brown, with a minute white band, 

 at times merely a trace, near the middle ; clypeus dark brown ; eyes brown 

 and garnet. 



Thorax dark brown ; prothoracic lobes with light spindle-shaped 

 scales ; mesonotum sparsely covered with small, slender curved golden 

 brown scales on the sides, the median portion partly denuded, but some 

 dark brown spindle-shaped scales remaining ; scutel'.um dark, with light, 

 slender curved scales ; pleura dark brown, with numerous small patches 

 of fla^, white scales ; metanotum dark brown. 



Abdomen dark, covered with dark brown scales ; very narrow basal 

 white bands, and small basal white lateral spots ; venter mostly white 

 scaled. 



Legs : coxae and trochanters dark, with light scales ; femora dark 

 brown dorsally, almost white ventrallj', more markedly so on the hind 

 legs ; tibiae brown, as are all the remaining joints, but on the hind legs 

 the metatarsi, the first, second, third and sometimes the fourth tarsal 

 joints have minute basal white spots, not amounting to bands ; on the 

 mid legs the spots appear on the metatarsi, first and second tarsal joints, 

 and on the fore legs there are minute yellowish spots at the tips of the 

 tibiae, and base and apex of the metatarsi, the remaining joints being 

 brown. Fore and mid ungues uniserrate. 



