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Redescribed from the type. One of the antennae has been mounted 

 in balsam on a sUde. 



This species is remarkable in that it combines a broad, depressed 

 scutellum with wings longiy ciliate marginally. I had tried several 

 years ago to retain Foerster's genus Synopeas by attempting to prove 

 that in this group nonciliate wings always accompany a broad and 

 depressed scutellum. Leptacies inermis served to frustrate my hopes 

 in the matter. 



21. LEPTACIS RUFISCAPA (Ashmead). 



Plate 1, figs. 18, 19. 



Synopeas rufiscapus Ashmead, Bull. 45, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1893, p. 288. Female 

 and male. 



Female. — Length 1.30 mm. Head twice as wide as long, not exca- 

 vated posteriorly, subopaque by reason of its being uniformly finely 

 shagreened; head seen from in front circular; vertex separated from 

 the occiput by a carina; thorax as wide as high, one-third longer 

 than wide; mesonotum convex, truncate posteriorly, the notauli 

 absent; scutellum without pubescence above, with the tubercle 

 absent; abdomen two-thirds as wide as long, broadly elliptical, 

 abruptly narrowed posteriorly; second tergite not longer than wide; 

 abdomen a little longer than the thorax, of about the same width; 

 wings hyaline, with a short but distinct marginal fringe of hairs. 

 Black; first six jomts of antennae, mandibles, all of legs (except the 

 coxae), and the hind femora and tibiae, rufous; rest of antennae and 

 legs black or brownish-black. 



Male. — Length 1.50 mm. Abdomen as long as the thorax, more 

 or less ovate but not much narrowed anteriorly ; second tergite with 

 a narrow shagreened line posteriorly; anterior wing with the cilia 

 either plastered down with shellac or not present. 



Type locality. — Jacksonville, Florida. 



Type.— Cat. No. 2275, U.S.N.M. Type female and allotype male 

 selected. 



Description based on female and male types in the National 

 Museum. An antenna of each specimen is mounted in balsam on a 

 slide. In the male the front and hind pair of legs are somewhat 

 lighter colored than in the female. 



22. LEPTACIS BRADLEYI, new species. 



The following description is based on the "male" tj\)es of DelicJio- 

 types liophinsi, Crawford and Bradley, originally described and figured 

 in 1911.25 



Female. — Length 1 mm. Frons subconvex, evenly rounded, very 

 faintly reticulate; occiput more strongly reticulate, separated from 

 the vertex by a blunt ridge; antennae as illustrated in connection 



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