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lations on the clypeus are reduced to a short median stripe and a 

 pair of small lateral spots. The widely interrupted fasciae on the 

 lergites are broad laterally but are very narrow medially. The third 

 is broken into lateral and discal marks. 



SPECIMENS EXAMINED 



Bolivia: Rio Colorado (September, M. R. Lopez). 



Handlirsch described the species from specimens taken at or near 

 Nauta, Peru. 



STICTIA ANDREI (Handlirsch) 



Monedula owdrei Handlirsch, Sitz. Akatl. Wisseusch. Wieu. Math.-Nat. CI., 

 vol. 99, 1890, p. 94.— Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., vol. 8, 1891, p. 496. 



I have at hand two females of this species determined by Hand- 

 lirsch, of which one bears the label " E. Peru" and the other 

 '• Nauta." The characteristics of this species, as set forth by Hand- 

 lirsch, are well shown by these two specimens. All the specimens, 3 

 males and 21 females, on which Handlirsch based his description of 

 the species, were from Peru. j 



Genus STICTIELLA Parker V 



Figures 13, 14, 32 



Stictiella Pabkee, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 52, 1917, p. 21. 



Genotype. — Monedulu foiniosa Cresson, designated by Parker in 

 1917. 



This genus may be distinguished from all nearly related genera, 

 except Steniolia, by the fact that the ocelli are placed in pits or de- 

 pressions. From StenioUa it may readily be distinguished by the 

 character of the maxillae, which in StenioUa are exceedingly long, 

 reaching the hind coxae, and can not be folded behind the labrum 

 when at rest, whereas in Stictiella the maxillae are of normal devel- 

 opment. Available records indicate that this genus is confined to 

 North America. 



Head usually as wide as the thorax, in some species narrower; 

 eyes naked, their inner margins approximately parallel or slightly 

 divergent at the vertex; ocelli placed in pits or depressions, their 

 lenses not completely obliterated, but much distorted ; anterior ocellus 

 with a distinct elevation round about it; middle of vertex not de- 

 pressed beloAv level of top of eyes; clypeus only slightly arched, no 

 dorsal median carina present and no flattened ventral area ; mandibles 

 dentate; maxillary palpus composed of six segments, labial of four; 

 posterior apical border of middle femur of male lacking groove and 

 stout tooth, such as is present in the genus Stictia; seventh tergite of 



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