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brown, nearly three times as broad as long, bilobed, projecting with 

 long hairs. 



Eye black, not romid, relatively large, projecting, close to lateral 

 margin of head. Ocellus hyaline, suboval, upper rim projecting, 

 close and at an angle to eye, separated from eye by a distance less 

 than the short diameter of an ocellus. 



Mandible yellow, castaneous at apex, relatively long. 



Antenna light j'ellow-broAvn, 14r-15 segments, segments becoming 

 longer and broader tov/ard apex, with long hairs; third segment 

 ring-like, short and narrow, shorter than second or fourth segments; 

 fourth segment shorter than second; last segment slender, elongate, 

 and subelliptical. 



Pronotum yellow-brown, tinged with gray, lighter colored than 

 head; saddle-shaped, broadl}^ subcorclate, with T-shaped marking 

 and long hairs. 



Meso- and meta-nota with posterior margins broadly roundedly 

 emarginate. 



Wings smoky-gray, costal area yellow-brown, margins ciliate, sur- 

 face punctate and with hairs. In forewing median vein nearer to 

 cubitus than to subcosta, with two branches to apex of wing and 

 one or two branches to lower margin ; cubitus with nine branches or 

 subbranches to lower margin of wing, occupies less than half area 

 of wing (in width). 



Legs yellow-brown, with long hairs. 



Abdomen with tcrgites yellow-brown tinged with gray, with 

 spiracular markings and dense long hairs ; cerci fairly prominent. 



Me asure merits. — 



Length of entire winged female adult, 8.50-8.75 mm. 



Length of entire Vtinged male adult, 7.75-8.00 mm. 



Length of entire deiilated female adult, 5.00-5.70 mm. 



Length of entire deiilated male adult, 4.50-5.30 mm. 



Length of head (to tip of labrum), 0.90 mm. 



Length of left mandible, 0.40 mm. 



Length of pronotum, 0.45 mm. 



Length of hind tibia, 0.70 mm. 



Length of anterior wing of female, 7.25 mm. 



Diameter of eye (long diameter), 0.20 mm. 



Width of head (at eyes), 0.75 mm. 



Width of pronotum, 0.60 mm. 



Width of anterior wing of female, 2.10 mm. 



A. {A.) proxiTrms Snyder comes in the group wlicrc the post- 

 clypeus is over twice as broad as long. 



T]/pe locality. — Tumupasa, Bolivia. 



Described from a series of winged female and male adults col- 

 lected with workers at the type locality by W. IVF. Mann in Decem- 

 ber, 1921. 



Type, winged female adult. — Cat. No. 27670, U.S.N.M. 



