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Description of Female. — Similar to appendiculaia but with a round velvety 

 spot between bases of antennae. Face, pleura and femora densely cinereous. 

 Yellowish spots on face faint or confined to the one on the hump below the 

 black spot. Ciliation of fore femora weak. Parafacials moderately narrow. 

 Abdomen mostly brown with interrupted cinereous apical bands on segments 

 more or less dilated medianly; venter cinereous with irrorations. Wings 

 hyaline with yellowish tinge; cross veins more or less clouded; no stump on 

 fourth vein. Length. — 3. .5 to 4.0 mm. 



Type. — 9 ; Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, March 3-14, 1905, 

 [Ohio State Univ.]. Paratypes. — 29; topotypical. 19; Los 

 Amates, Jan. 16-20, 1905. 1 9 ; Gualan, Feb. 15, 1905; all in 

 Guatemala, [Ohio]. 



Paralimna meridionalis new species 



Allied to appendiculaia but evidently distinct, although the characters of 

 differentiation are very weak. On comparison with that species, those belong- 

 ing here have the head, especially the frons and face, naiTOwer, appearing 

 longer in proportion to the width. The face generally of a dark dull color, 

 not sericeous, with a dark dash of brown or yellow on the carina between and 

 a spot or dash laterad of each upper bristle. Eyes obhque, causing the para- 

 facials to become narrower; the groove is more concentric with the orbits. 

 Special attention should be given to the latter character. The orbital spot 

 is less distinct, and the gray abdominal bands are always broadly interrupted 

 and less dilated medianly. Fore femora of the male with lateral ciliation of 

 close bristles, sometimes arranged in double series basally; inesal series of 

 short bristles in one row; lateral series in the female complete, well developed. 



Type. — cf ; La Carpentera, Costa Rica, Dec. 4, 1909, (P. P. 

 Calvert), [A. E. S. Type No. 6092.] Paratypes.— o, topotj^pical. 



Specimens Examined. — 40. 



Guatemala: Puerto Barrios, Mar. 3-14 1905, 1; Los Amates, Feb. IS, 

 1905, 1; Santa Lucia, Feb. 2, 1905, 2, aU [Ohio]. 



CcsTA Rica: Alajuela, 3100 ft. alt., Sept. 15, 1909, (P. P. Calvert; sweeping), 

 1; Banana River, Upper Reservoir, Nov. 9, 1909, (Calvert; sweeping), 1; 

 Cachi, Rio Reventazon, Mar. 10, 1910, (Calvert; stagnant pool near bank), 

 1; Cartago, July 4, 1909, (Calvert), 9; Oct. 27, 1909, (Calvert), 1; Dec. 12, 

 1909, (Calvert; sweeping over mud), 1; Irazu Volcano, near Cartago, 5000 

 ft. alt., Dec. 15, 1909, (Calvert; over mud), 7; La Carpentera, Dec. 4, 1909, 

 (Calvert), 6; Bonnefil Farm, Rio Surubres, Oct. 21, 1909, (Calvert ; sweeping), 

 2; Turrucares, Dec. 21, 1909, (Calvert; sweeping over mud), 1, all [A. E. S.j. 



Panama: Paraiso, Dec. 19, 1909, (A. H. Jennings), 1; Jan. IG, 1911, (A. 

 Busck), 1; TaberniUa, Apr. 29, 1907, (A. Busck), 1; Rio Trinidad, Mar. 20, 

 1912, (A. Busck), 1, all [U. S. N. M.]. 



Peru: Calanga, 1, [H. N. M.]. 



Argentina: Tucuman, May 8, 1914, (T. C. BarlK>r), 1, [U. S. X. M.]. 



trans, am. ENT. see, XLII. 



