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times with a very narrow whitish band; wings of female tinged with 

 brownish and with poorly defined but moderately dark bro^vn 

 markings. 



Type: 9, Paradise Key, Fla., Apr. 12, 1951, H. and M. Townes 

 (Washington, USNM 63818). 



Paratypes: 9, Biscayne Bay, Fla. (Washington). 5cf, Paradise 

 Key, Fla., Apr. 8 and 12, 1951, H. and M. Townes (Townes). 



4. Diapetimorpha picta, new species 



Figures 332,c,d 



Male: Front wing 5.4 mm. long; clypeus short, strongly convex, 

 its apical 0.3 flattened; cheek 0.48 as long as basal width of mandible; 

 tyloids faint, linear, extending about 0.6 the length of each of 4 seg- 

 ments; metapleurum polished, with small, weak punctures that are 

 separated by about 2.0 their diameter; juxtacoxal carina almost com- 

 plete but weak and irregular; intercubitus about 2.5 as long as width 

 of radial vein. 



Head, body, and hind coxa marked with black, white, fuscous, and 

 fulvous as in figure 332, c; palpi, front of scape, and band on flagellum 

 that covers six segments, white; front and middle coxae and trochan- 

 ters white, with some fulvous stains ; front and middle legs beyond 

 coxae fulvous, their tarsi brown apically; hind trochanters and femur 

 fulvous, the trochanters and base of femora with broTvn tinges; hind 

 tibia bro^^^lish fulvous; hind tarsus white, the basal half of its first 

 segment fulvous brown and all of fifth segment brown; wings hyaline. 



Female type: Front wing 6.3 mm. long; clypeus moderately con- 

 vex, its apical 0.3 wealdy impressed; cheek 0.48 as long as basal width 

 of mandible; metapleurum with moderately strong, longitudinal rugae, 

 and scattered, rather weak punctures, its juxtacoxal carina complete 

 but weak; propodeal teeth about 0.37 as long as their basal width; 

 apical carina of propodeum obsolescent between the teeth; inter- 

 cubitus 2.5 as long as width of radial vein. 



Head, thorax, and hind coxa marked with black, white, fuscous, 

 and fulvous as in figure 332, d; palpi white; scape brown; flagellum 

 with an incomplete white band that covers six segments; front and 

 middle coxae and trochanters whitish, with some pale fulvous areas; 

 hind coxa and trochanters fulvous, the coxa with a basal white area 

 above; legs beyond trochanters fulvous; wings hyaline. 



Type: 9, St. Marys, Ga., May 8, 1928, F. M. Uhler (Patuxent 

 Refuge Collection). 



Paratype: cf , Biscayne Bay, Fla., A. T. Slosson (New York). 



