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County, Tex., July 9, 1942, H. A. Scullen (Washington) . S , Uvalde, 

 Tex., June 18, 1920, Wickham (Cambridge). 



5. HYPTIA FLORIDANA Ashmead 



FlGTJEE 44, e 



Eyptia floridana Ashmead, Can. Ent., vol. 33, p. 303, 1901. Lectotype hereby 

 selected: $, Biscayne Bay, Fla. (Washington). 



Mesoscutum about 0.51^ as long as wide; forewing ahout £.3 mm. 

 long. 



Forewing about 2.3 mm. long ; punctures on f rons tending to form 

 transverse rows, the rows separated by about 0.6 the diameter of the 

 punctures; seventh flagellar segment of male about 1.33 as long as 

 wide, of female about 1.0 as long as wide; central 0.6 of mesoscutum 

 reduced so that it is not visible from above; mesoscutum in dorsal 

 view about 0.54 as long as wide, its punctures separated by about 0,5 

 their diameter; mesopleurum with an impression in its median pos- 

 terior corner, its lower swollen part with only fine punctures or with 

 a very few medium-sized punctures intermingled (fig. 44, e) ; under 

 side of hind femur with small punctures, its impunctate area extend- 

 ing from near its middle to the apex; longer spur of hind tibia about 

 1.15 as long as the shorter spur and about 0.47 as long as the hind 

 basitarsus; first tergite with moderately coarse oblique striae and 

 scattered oblique punctures. 



Black or piceous. Mandible, tegula, tibial spurs, and front and 

 middle tarsi fulvous to brownish fulvous; front and middle legs more 

 or less tinged with fulvous in the male, definitely fulvous in the female. 

 In the female the scape, basal flagellar segments, and apical 0.4 of first 

 tergite are more or less definitely fulvous. Two specimens from 

 Guatemala and Panama have the head and thorax largely ferruginous. 



Specimens. — 5, Jacksonville, Fla. (paratype, "Washington), 2 

 5 5,3$$, feeding on petiolar nodules of Ricinus communis, Miami, 

 Fla., October 3, 1918 (Washington). $ , Miami, Fla, (New York). 

 $ , De Witt, Ga,, June 8, 1914, C, S. Spooner (Ithaca) . $ , Tallulah, 

 La, (Washington). 5, Concepcion, 1,400 feet, Guatemala, C. N, 

 Ainslie (Washington), $, Porto Bello, Panama, March 6, 1911, 

 E. A. Schwartz (Washington). 



6. HYPTIA OBLONGA, new species 



Figure 44, f 



Mesopleurum just below the oblique carina with oblique rugae; 

 mesoscutum about 0.90 as long as wide. 



Forewing 2,6 to 3.7 mm. long; punctures on frons separated by 

 about 0.2 to 0.4 their diameter ; seventh segment of flagellum of male 



