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low, a rust-yellow tinge to the femora. Mesosciitiim has an olive 

 shade of ground color which shows through when greased and becomes 

 brownish. The frontalia sometimes have a rust-yellow tinge, like- 

 wise scutellum is sometimes quite the shade of the abdominal yellow. 



Type.— Cht. No. 15172, U.S.N.M. Female; TD 3937. 



Deposits colored maggots on foliage. 



EUDEJEANIA, new genus. 



Characters of Dejeania, but abdomen broad and robust, that of 

 female especially subquadrangular, nearly as wide beliind as in middle, 

 deeply emarginate, buttocks-like posteriorly; that of male broad if 

 not emarginate, not narrowed or tapering anally. Claws of male 

 only a little longer than those of female, and same characters of palpi 

 and proboscis as in Dejeania. Very large forms, going up to 1 1 ,000 or 

 12,000 feet in the Peruvian Andes. 



Reproductive habit, leaf-larviposition ; uterus very long and strap- 

 like, developing colored maggots. 



Type-specieS. — Eudejeania suhalpina, new species. 



EUDEJEANIA SUBALPINA, new species. 



Length of body, 18 to 18.5 mm.; same to end of abdominal spines, 

 about 20 mm.; of wing, 18 to nearly 19 mm.; of palpi, 4.5 mm. 

 Breadth of abdomen, 10.5 mm. Two males, Watkins's Camp, in the 

 canyon of the Rio San Gaban, eastern slope of Cordillera Oriental, 

 southern Peru, about 11,500 feet, February 16, 1910, on flowers of 

 a shrub. 



Face and cheeks smoky-fuscous, the facial plate with a thin bloom, 

 the parafacials and cheeks thinly pale brassy pollinose. Parafrontals 

 brownish, with an olive tinge due to the brassy pollen. Frontalia, 

 antennae and arista dark brown. Palpi deep soft black. Occiput 

 cinereous, with pale brassy pile, fringed with black pile. Pleurse 

 reddish and very faintly and thinly silvery. Mesoscutum brownish 

 on disk, with a faint silvery to cinereous bloom leaving the usual five 

 vittse, the median one indistinct; lateral and hind margins obscure 

 brownish-yellowish, the scutellum same color or slightly more reddish 

 and Mdthout bloom. Abdomen wholly light brownish-blood-red 

 above and below, with no trace of bloom above, very faintly and 

 thinly silvery on sides of venter. Femora of nearly same reddish as 

 abdomen, tibiae deep rust-yellow or reddish-yellow ; tarsi deep yellow, 

 the spurs and hairs with more or less of a reddish tinge. Claws not 

 greatly elongate, black-tipped. Wings deeply smoky-fuscous through- 

 out; tegulfe deep fuscous with darker margin. Longitudinal veins 

 of wings reddish. 



Type.— Cs^t. No. 15173, U.S.N.M. 



