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and on the ventral sides; pubescence short, dark, and Uttle conspicuous on 

 the upper side; paler hairs toward the tip and on the venter. Stem of the 

 halteres brownish; knob whitish yellow. Tegulae pale with a pale brownish 

 border. Coxae blackish, paler at the tip; legs brownish-yellow; ungues 

 black. Wings pale brownish, somewhat darker along the costa, and lighter 

 within the basal cells; costal and first veins dark brown; the first vein becom- 

 ing perceptibly stouter toward the tip. A single female. 



"N. B. The hind part of the mesonotum being injured by the pin, I cannot 

 describe the praescutellar callosities, etc." 



APELLEIA 



Apelleia Bellardi, Saggio di Ditt. Messic, Append., p. 17, (1862). 



Osten Sacken published a note on Apelleia,^ and it appears 



^Berhn. Ent. Zeitschrift, xvii, p. 297. 

 that the genus holds a rather precarious position. Apelleia 

 differs from Ocnaea Erichson in its glabrous eyes only. Exetazis 

 Walker also has glabrous eyes (judging from the plate, the author 

 making no mention of it), and shows other differences, especially 

 in the venation, and yet is considered a synonym of Ocnaea. 

 The genus Ocnaea, however, shows considerable variation in 

 venation. Osten Sacken had a new species from Central America 

 at the time of writing the above article which was an Ocnaea, 

 except for its glabrous eyes, and therefore agreed with Apelleia. 

 Professor Bellardi correctly compared Apelleia to Eriosoma 

 Macquart and Exetaxis Walker and gave the differences, but both 

 of these genera are now considered synonyms of Ocnaea. 



(Transl.) "Body pilose. Eyes bare, very finely and uniformly 

 reticulated. Two ocelli, moderately distant. Antennae inserted 

 on the vertex, exceeding the head in Length, and almost contiguous 

 at the base; three joints, the first short, the second a little longer, 

 third much longer and linear, without a style. Proboscis short. 

 Abdomen subspherical. Femora incrassate, the tibiae large 

 (swollen) at apex, spurred. The first joint of the tarsi longest; 

 the second, third and fourth joints of the posterior tarsi long but 

 not equal to the first. The second, third, fourth, and fifth joints 

 of the anterior tarsi short, subequal. Two submarginal and five 

 posterior cells, the first posterior divided by a cross-vein and 

 closed in the margin." 



