ART. 3. DKOSOPHILID TWO-WINGED FLIES MALLOOH. 3 



of scutellum brown. Abdomen brown, apices of tergites blackish. 

 Legs tawny, fore coxae, and the greater part of all femora and tibiae 

 fuscous. Wings brown, paler towards hind margins, and with a very 

 small subhyaline spot beyond outer cross-vein. Knobs of halteres 

 dark brown. 



Eye higher than long; cheek less than half as high as width of 

 third antennal segment, the latter extending to slightly below mouth 

 margin. Each humeral angle with one bristle; scutellum almost 

 semicircular, apical bristles half as long as basal pair. Inner cross- 

 vein at middle of discal cell; last section of fourth vein slightly 

 curved ; last section of fifth not abruptly deflected at outer cross- vein, 

 rather curved downward. 



Length, 3.25 mm. 



Type and one paratype, Higuito, San Mateo, Costa Kica (P. 

 Schild). 



7'yy^e.— Female, Cat. No. 26678, U.S.N.M. 



The type specimen has a white egg protruded from apex of ab- 

 domen. The portion which is visible is shaped like a flat-bottomed 

 boat, the margins near upper side carinate and with a fringe of pale 

 closely placed hairs. 



STEGANA TEMPIFERA Malloch. 



Male and fe??iaIe.—Rea.d yellow testaceous, frons with an hour- 

 glass shaped dark mark as in interrupta, but not so distinct, some- 

 times only brownish; face with two narrow dark cross-bands, one 

 below bases of antennae and the other above mouth; labrum brown; 

 palpi mostly fuscous; cheek pale yellow; upper occiput brown. 

 Thorax tawny yellow, whitish yellow on pleura, disk with three 

 partial brown vittae, one on lateral margin, another just above it 

 from anterior margin, and another mesad of that which does not 

 extend as far forward. Abdomen dark brown, sides of some of the 

 basal tergites yellowish. Legs testaceous ydlow, fore femora with 

 a basal and an apical brown band, nearly all of mid and hind femora 

 and a broad median band on same tibiae dark brown, fore tibiae with 

 a faint median ring. Wings brown, paler towards hind margins. 

 Halteres yellow. 



Eye about as long as high ; cheek nearly linear. Scutellum slightly 

 pointed, apical bristles about two-thirds as long as basal pair. Inner 

 cross- vein at or close to middle of discal cell ; last section of fourth 

 vein not absolutely straight, very close to third at apex; fifth vein 

 deflected at outer cross-vein 



Length, 2.5 mm. 



Type and four paratypes. Higuito, San Mateo, Costa Rica (P. 

 Schild). 



Type.— Male, Cat. Xo. 26680, U.S.N.M. 



