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knoblike prominences, each bearing stiff setae, arising apparently 

 from the ninth sternum. Length 4.5-7.5 mm, of holotype 5.5 mm. 



Female. — Similar to male except sexually; frons not noticeably 

 wider than in male; fifth tergum black, with the usual violaceous 

 reflections, except a moderately broad anterior margin; sixth segment 

 black only dorsally, with a median apical area yellow. Last segment 

 of ovipositor brownish, a transverse polished area at apex of its 

 tergum; second segment of cercus almost black. 



Color of eye in life. — Male: Bronzy red in lower half; olive 

 green in upper half, with narrow anterior wedge of indigo (fig. 9) . 



Distribution. — Dominica, Lesser Antilles. 



Holotype. — d\ Clarke Hall, June 6, 1966, G. Steyskal, type 

 no. 69518, USNM. 



Allotype. — 9, same data but June 8. 



Paratypes. — 2 99, 36 cf d\ same but May 16 to June 10, Steyskal, 

 and Mar. 11-31, 1965, light trap, W. W. Wirth; lcf, South Chiltern, 

 Feb. 2, 1965, Wirth. 



Remarks. — The name "eunomus" means "orderly," referring to 

 the neat arrangement of the abdominal spots. 



Microchrysa bicolor (Wiedmann) 



Figures 11, 12 



Color of eye in life. — Male : Upper, larger ommatidia brick red ; 

 lower, smaller ommatidia green with reddish reflections, becoming 

 quite intense green adjacent to upper section (fig. 11). Female: Upper 

 part bronzy reddish; lower part reddish with greenish reflections; 

 slightly above middle with transverse green band, narrowed some- 

 what posteriorly and bordered above with very dark indigo band and 

 below with narrower deeper green stripe (fig. 12). 



Distribution.— Throughout the Greater and Lesser Antilles and 

 most of the mainland of tropical America. 



I have the following records from Dominica: 9 99, 1 cf, Clarke Hall, 

 Jan. 8-31, 1965, malaise trap, W. W. Wirth; 2 99, 1 d\ same, June 

 1964, light trap, O. S. Flint, Jr.; 5 99, 1 d\ same, May 16 to June 12, 

 1966, G. Steyskal; 1 d\ same, Feb. 10, 1965, reared banana stem, 

 Wirth; 1 d\ same, Jan. 22, 1964, H. Robinson; 1 9, Hillsborough 

 Estate, Mar. 15, 1965, Wirth. 



Artemita inornata (Williston) 



Kertesz (1914) did not know this species and doubted its distinct- 

 ness from Acanthina bellardii Giglio-Tos on the basis that the reddish 

 color of the scutellum in the latter species may not be diagnostic. I 

 have identified both Artemita inornata and Acanthina bellardii from 

 Mexico, and the two are quite distinct ; the red scutellum of Acanthina 



