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the convex side in front; fifth sternite black, deeply divided, the lobes 

 with a few black hairs. 



Legs black, tibiae obscurely reddish at middle ; claws and pulvilli 

 elongated; middle tibia with two or three large bristles on outer 

 front side ; hind tibia with a row of about six uneven bristles on outer 

 posterior edge. 



Wings grayish hyaline ; third vein setulose two-thirds the distance 

 to small cross vein; fourth vein with an almost rectangular bend 

 curving inward bej'ond thence straight in a diagonal direction to 

 costa ; first posterior cell open far before the wing tip ; epaulets black ; 

 costal spine not developed. 



Length, 12 to 13.5 mm. 



Fennale. — Unknown. 



ry/x'.— Male, U.S.N.M. no. 50562, from Gold Beach, Oreg. 



Remarks. — Described from one male in the United States National 

 Museum collected at Gold Beach, Oreg., July 12, 1924, by H. A. 

 Scullen, and one male in the Kansas University Museum collection 

 taken by R. H. Beamer, San Jacinto Mountains. Calif., July 21, 

 1929. 



(16) CUPHOCERA INCONGRUA. new species 



Readily recognized in the male sex by the presence of two strong 

 proclinate orbital bristles; ocellars and usually the palpi absent; 

 propleura bare ; intermediate abdominal segments without discals. 



Male. — Front broad, at vertex 0.383 of the head width (average 

 of three, 0.38; 0.37; 0.4), yellow in ground color, the sides thinly 

 gray pollinose and clothed with black fine hairs ; frontal stripe pale 

 yellow, narrower than one parafrontal on entire length: verticals 

 two pairs, large; frontals about eight in the row which is suddenly 

 divergent beneath the antennae extending about to level with middle 

 of the second segment; two or three extra frontal bristles situated 

 between the orbitals and the main row; face and cheeks yellow in 

 ground color covered with silvery subshining pollen; antennae red, 

 third segment mostly dark, about as broad as long and distinctly 

 shorter than second segment; arista dark brown, evenly tapering, 

 penultimate segment about twice the length of first; parafacial 

 broad, with two stout bristles near eye on lower part and clothed 

 with scattered black hairs except on inner margin ; facial ridges 

 flat, bearing one or two bristles above vibrissae; face moderately 

 bulged at middle, its lower border strongly protuberant; cheeks 

 rather sparsely clothed with coarse black hairs, about three-fourths 

 the eye height; proboscis about equal the height of head, distal 

 segment narrowed toward tip, shining reddish brown, labella com- 

 pressed not thicker than proboscis; minute palpi present in one 



