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streak is a conspicuous conicoclavate clear area whose head projects 

 directly distad into the clouded area and nearly meets a caudo- 

 proximal part of the oblique streak or fold, present in this species. 

 All appendages and venation concolorous with general body color; 

 distal end of antennal club and caudal tibiae often dusky. Lower end 

 of face (the cephalo-ventral aspect) suffused slightl}^ with lemon 

 yellow, which, however, does not stand out conspicuously. Eyes 

 red. Mandibles bidentate, their tips black. 



^Marginal fringes of the fore wing long and slender, slightly longer 

 than the greatest width of that wing, subequal in length to those of 

 the caudal wings. Discal bristle absent; oblique streak on fore wing 

 present. Caudal wings moderate in width, about twice the width of 

 those 'mjiavoimlliata. 



Belongs near to the jiavopalliata group by reason of its general 

 coloration (brown) , Of the species of this group — Jiavopalliata, mexi- 

 cana, and townsendi — it closely resembles none of them. From the 

 first two it differs in having the wings broader, the fore wings fumated 

 further distad and spotted, in lacking the discal bristle and in having 

 the curve along the inner margin of the stigmal and margmal (at 

 apex) vein longer. From mexicana, aside from differences in colora- 

 tion, it may be distinguished by means of the narrower wings (pos- 

 terior especially), the longer marginal cilia and the absence of the 

 discal bristle and from townsendi in general coloration and in bearing 

 longer marginal cilia on the wings. At once separable from all 

 species of the genus by having a portion of the distal half of the fore 

 wing maculate or spotted.^ 



From 18 specimens the same magnification. 



Male . — Unlcno wn . 



Described from 18 female specimens sent to me for identification 

 and study by Dr. L. O. Howard and mounted on three balsam slides, 

 all labeled "7231. Mayo, 1911. Signiphora sp. Let. fr. P. Cardin, 

 June 21, 1911. Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba," and bearmg, respec- 

 tively, 3 females, 4 females and 11 females. In a letter dated July 

 11, 1911, Doctor Howard informed me that this species was reared 

 from LepidosapJies alba (Cockerell) by Patricio Cardin, entomologist, 

 experiment station, Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba. 



Habitat. — West Indies — Cuba (Santiago de las Vegas). 



Host. — Lepidosaplies alba (Cockerel!). 



Type.— QQ.i. No. 14203, U.S.N.M. Eleven females in balsam (1 

 slide) . 



Cotype. — Accession No. 45084, Illinois State Laboratory of Natural 

 History, Urbana, 4 females in balsam (1 slide). 



Honnotypes. — (3 females) in the collections of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture. 



> This maculation, however, sometimes occurs in other species; for instance, the tjTpe-species. 



