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to vary somewhat, owing to the segment being partly retractile), 

 at the tip two long, very stout spinelike bristles which are parallel 

 from above and curved downward in profile (fig. 69, h). Wing 

 (fig. 69, g) with the costa decidedly short of the middle, fringe long; 

 first section about four times as long as the second; third section 

 one half as long as second ; first vein about one-half as thick as third ; 

 thickening along anterior costal edge rather broad and extending 

 almost to tip of fourth vein. 



Length, 2.25 to 2.5 mm. 



Type locality. — Uvalde, Tex. 



Type and pamtypes.—U.S.l^M. no. 52288. 



Remarks. — Four specimens collected at the type locality on June 

 16, 1937, by A. W. Lindquist, of the U. S. Bureau of Entomology 

 and Plant Quarantine. A note stating that "the flies were flying over 

 ants {Eciton coecum Latreille) in an insectary" accompanied the 

 specimens. This species is most sunilar to Apocephahis spinicosta 

 Malloch, from which it is immediately distinguishable by its darker 

 color and more definite markings. 



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