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genus, I shall for the present regard it as distinct. The following 

 is an abstract of Poey's description : 



Antennal joints, fifteen; palpal joints, five; ocelli, tibial spurs, 

 and pulvilli wanting; wings hairy; cells few in number; sexes 

 similar. The antennae of the male appear to be a little more 

 hairy than those of the female. 



Oecacta fiirens Poey 

 Memorias, etc. 1 :236. Tab. XXVII. 1851 



Length 2 mm. from the head to the end of the wing; thorax 

 bronze colored, spotted with fuscous; abdomen fuscous; legs 

 whitish, the articulations and a ring upon each femur and tibia, 

 fuscous; front and antennae rufous; wings whitish, spotted with 

 fuscous; halteres yellow. The wings are broad, covered with 

 minute scales and with a conspicuous fringe on the margin. 



Townsend (1897) says: "Dry pinned specimens show the 

 wings to be strongly iridescent in certain lights, the dark and 

 white spots alike, as well as the veins and whole wing surface, 

 especially noticeable being various rich shades of blue and violet. 

 Poey remarks at some length on this peculiarity. When the wing 

 is held up to the light and looked through the dark spots appear 

 faint, excepting only the elongate rectangular black stigma ; this 

 can be seen with the naked eye." 



Cuba (Poey) ; Mexico and Jamnicn (Townsend). 



Genus 6. Bezzia Kieffer 

 Bui. Soc. Ent. Fr. 69. 1899 

 Belongs to the group Ceratopogon. Wings bare, tarsi 

 without empodium, radius B-branched (i. e. without the cross- 

 vein-like R,). (P1.17, fig.l5). Type C. o run ta Meigen. Sev- 

 eral American s])ecies belong to this genus. 



Bezzia setulosa Loew 

 1861 Ceratopogon Loow, Berl. Ent Zeit. 312 



(Pl.lS, figs. 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11) 

 The larvae were found in the Renwick swamps, Ithaca, N. Y., 

 July lOtli. They nre white without brown mnrkings and about 

 7 mm. long. The head is brown, each eye consists of two nearly 

 contiguous spots. On the dorsal surface of the head are several 

 pair of small setae. The labruin is rounded, with tAvo pairs of 

 small apical papillae, one pair api»arent]y jointed, and one or trvo 



