NO. 2004. THREE NEW SPECIES OF ANT HOMYIDM— M ALLOC H. 605 



strong, and long, widely divergent, and forwardly directed; post- ver- 

 tical bristles weak, divergent; antennae distinctly shorter than face 

 second joint with tliree strong dorsal bristles, the one nearest apex 

 the longest; arista subplumose, the hairs most distinct on upper sur- 

 face, basal joints short, terminal portion only slightly swollen and 

 tapering at base, cheeks with 2 to 3 rows of bristlelilie haks, the 

 upper series of which are sHghtly upturned; vihrissse distinct, bristles 

 carried up beyond vibrissse on facalia (3-4); proboscis and palpi 

 normal. Mesonotum with 2 presutural, 3 postsutural, and 2 humeral 

 bristles, pleurae with two bristles situated above fore coxae, 4 to 5 on 

 hind margin of mesopleura, and 3 (1-2) on sternopleura. Wings with 

 sixth vein reaching only halfway to margin ; veins 3-4 slightly diver- 

 gent. Calyptrae with the under scale very much larger than the 

 upper. 



Type of genus. — Paralimnophora hrunnesquama, new species. 



PARALIMNOPHORA BRUNNESQUAMA, new species. 



JfaZe.— Black, shining. Frons with center stripe, viewed from 

 in front, gray dusted; face gray dusted. Mesonotum shuiing, deep 

 black, unstriped, in some lights with an indication of grayish-yellow 

 pollinosity on humeri, lateral, and posterior margins; acrostichal 

 bristles irregular (3-4) rowed. Abdomen ovate; with very distinct 

 grayish-yellow pollinosity, which covers all the segments except the 

 base of first, two large subtriangular spots on second, and two 

 smaller, less distinct spots on tliird, which are deep black; all seg- 

 ments with setulose hairs, which are longest laterally, and on apices 

 of segments, as well as on disk of apical segment; hypopygium 

 retracted, shining black. Legs black, hind tibiae brownish black; 

 fore tibia with one short bristle on slightly below middle of posterior 

 surface, apex with one strong and one weak dorsal bristle, and one 

 posterior apical spur; mid femur on antero-ventral surface with an 

 irregular row of numerous, moderately long bristles, postero-ventral 

 surface with six almost equally long bristles on basal half, then the 

 row rapidly decreases in length and becomes closer placed, the apical 

 half having 12 to 13 bristles on it; mid tibia with two posterior 

 bristles, the upper just above the middle, the lower at just above 

 one- third from apex; antero-ventral surface of hind femur with a 

 series of about eight bristles, which begins just before middle with 

 short, weak bristles and the last 4 to 5 of which are almost equally 

 strong and regularly placed, the row on the postero-ventral surface 

 is slightly weaker, more numerous, begins weak at base, lengthens 

 on middle, and finishes at before apex equal in strength to the basal 

 portion of series; hind tibia with one dorsal preapical bristle, two 

 antero-dorsal, one a little above and the other below middle, two 



