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Genus EUMYOBIA To>Arnsend. 



Eumyobia Townsend, Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., vol. 4, 1911, p. 146. 



Allied to LesJcia and Pyrrhosia, with following characters: Frontal 

 bristles descending nearly to base of third antennal joint. Arista 

 pubescent. Ocellar bristles very small but distinct. Second antennal 

 joint not elongate, the third three times as long. Proboscis below 

 geniculation longer than head-height, slender, horny, but labella 

 conspicuous. Female with two orbital bristles, approximated to 

 vertex. Three sternopleural and three postsutural bristles. Scutel- 

 lum with only two marginal pairs of bristles, apical pair wanting, a 

 short subdiscal pair present. No bristles on first abdominal segment 

 except a very small lateral one; a long median marginal pair on sec- 

 ond segment and a long lateral one; a marginal row of long bristles 

 on third segment, being eight long ones, with six shorter ones on 

 venter; a marginal row of shorter ones on anal segment, those below 

 shorter than those above, all erect. Apical cell narrowly open, ending 

 just before wingtip. Fourth vein continued in very short stump 

 toward inner wing-margin, hind crossvein nearer to apical crossvein. 



Reproductive habit, larviposition on or near host, the eggs and 

 maggots being irregularly packed in the thick tubular twice-coiled 

 uterus. 



Type-species. — Eumyohia jlava Townsend. 



EUMYOBIA FLAVA Townsend. 



Eumyohia fiava Townsend, Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., vol. 4, 1911, pp. 146-147. — 

 TD 4021. 



Length of body, about 10 mm.; of wing, 8 mm. One female, 

 Sullana, valley of the Rio Cliira, Peru, March 25, 1911, on foliage. 



Whole face, cheeks, and lower half of occiput silvery-white, the 

 parafrontals and upper portions of occiput with a deep but variable 

 golden shade. Frontalia honey-yellowish, antennae nearly same 

 shade, the third joint dusky on apical half, the arista and its 

 pubescence blackish. Palpi pale yellowish. Pleurae silver3^-white. 

 'Mesoscutum and scutellum deeply golden poUinose, the former with 

 only faint indication of five vittse. Abdomen straw-yellow with 

 brown patches on second and third segments, that on third larger. 

 Legs yellowish, tarsi brownish. Wings nearly clear, the costal margin 

 yellowish, the veins accompanied by a faint infuscation. 



Type.— C&t. No. 15150, U.S.N.M. TD 4021,/. r. s. 



TROProOPSIS CONNECTANS, new species. 



Length of body, 13 mm. ; of wing, 13 mm. One male, Rio Charape, 

 montafia of eastern slopes of Cordillera Oriental in the Province of 



