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Abdomen shining, finely punctate and with short white pubescence ; 

 first tergite virtually glabrous and sparsely punctate; second tergite 

 nearly as long as first, fully three times as long as broad at base, with 

 distinct elongate oblique gastrocoeli; spiracles distinctly behind 

 middle, tergites 2-6 with broad transparent epipleura ; ovipositor 

 sheath about as long ag first tergite. 



Head and abdomen black and yellow, thorax largely ferrugi- 

 nous; yellow markings as follows: Broad complete orbital rings, 

 face, clypeus, mandibles, palpi, underside of scape, and pedicel; 

 broad anterior and hmneral margins of pronotum, triangular spots 

 in positions of notauli, scutellum, and postscutellum ; broad subapical 

 bands on tergites 1-6, those on 4-6 divided medially, apical 

 lateral margin of tergite 7, and entire venter. Flagellum blackish 

 above, ferruginous below. Legs whitish with black or piceous mark- 

 ings as follows: On middle femur an elongate spot on each side 

 above toward apex ; on hind leg large spots on inner and outer sides 

 of coxa below, basal joint of trochanter, elongate spots on outer and 

 inner sides of femur, base and apex of tibia with a connecting stripe 

 on outer side, and apices of the tarsal joints. Wings hyaline with 

 fuscous venation. 



Male. — Essentially like female, but the face broader, malar space 

 longer, seventh tergite black with a small yellow spot on each side. 



Tijpe locality. — Hillsboro County, Fla. 



Other localities. — Osceola County, Lake Couiity, and Pinellas 

 County, Fla. 



ry/?t^— U.S.N.M. no. 50623. 



Three females and three males, all taken in bait traps in connec- 

 tion with the Florida Fruit Fly Survey of 1929-30. One of the 

 males is headless, and another lacks all the abdomen except the 

 first segment. 



BRACHYCYRTUS CONVERGENS, new species 



Figure 2 



This and the next following species form a group differing from 

 both of the other groups in the barely emarginate eyes; entire lack 

 of epomia; broad, shallow, and smooth scutellar fovea; virtually 

 absent lateral carinae of propocleum; uniformly shagreened pro- 

 podeum ; and entire lack of gastrocoeli. 



Female. — Length 6.0 mm; antenna 5.0 mm; ovipositor sheath 

 1.0 mm. 



Head polished, nearly half as thick as broad, temples oblique, very 

 weakly convex; ocellar triangle moderately transverse, the postocel- 

 lar line fully twice as long as lateral ocellar line, a short deep groove 

 between the posterior ocelli ; head in front view distinctly trans- 

 versely oval, the eyes together comprising distinctly less than two- 



