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Type in author's collection. 



Agrees most closely m\\\ phatta Phil., which has the thorax gray and 

 the wing-pattern very different, three black spots in cells ist Ri and 2nd R^ 



Fur corny ia insignifica, sp. n. 



Head brownish gray ; thorax reddish brown, d irker medially. 

 9. — Length, 8.5 mm.; wing, 9.6 mm.; fore leg, femur, 59 mm.; 

 tibia, 7 3 mm, 



9 • — Head ; rostrum, palpi and antennae dark brown. Front, vertex 

 and occiput brownish gray. 



Thorax : pronotum yellowish brown. Mesonotum, prsescutum reddish 

 brown, darkest brown medially on prsescutum ; paler, yellowish, on the 

 humeral angles ; pleurœ brownish yellow, brightening to yellow on the 

 sternum. Haltères long, slender, brown, brighter at the base. Legs 

 long, slender ; coxae and trochanters yellowish ; femora yellowish brown ; 

 tibiae and tarsi brown. Wings hyaline, veins light brown ; stigma barely 

 indicated, rectangular, very pale. Venation (see fig. i.) : Sc short, Sc^^ 

 quite removed from the tip of Scj; Rs short, not much longer than the 

 deflection of R4+5; basal deflection of Cu^ far before the fork of M. 



Abdomen: tergum dark brown on the basal segments, lighter brow» 

 on the apical segments ; sternum light brown. 



Holotype. — 9 . Iquico, Peru. (Received from Staudinger-Bang-Haas ) 



Type in author's collection. 



This species cannot be referred to pallida Macq , which has a 

 triangular cell ist M.^ which bears a spur, this character of an appendi- 

 culate cell also separating elquiietisis Blanch. The other species with 

 uns[)otted wings, fiavida Phil, and chlorotica Phil., are quite different 

 insects, specimens of which are before me, and will be redescribed in du 

 later paper. 



Furcomyia argeniina^ sp. n. 



Head gray ; thorax gray, darker on dorso-median line. 



9 .—Length, 8 mm.; wing, 8.9 mm.; fore leg, femur, 6 mm.; tibia^ 

 7 mm.; hind leg, femur, 7.1 mm.; tibia, 7.7 mm. 



9 . — Head : rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antennae dark brown^ 

 grayish pollinose ; segments submoniliform. Front, vertex and occiput 

 gray. 



Thorax : pronotum brownish gray, the gray being pollen. Meso- 

 notum, praescutum gray, with an indistinct, broad, brown, median stripe ;. 

 scutum, scu'ellum and postnotum pale, with a gray pollen. Pleu??e pale 



