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section; third vein with bristly hairs extending about halfway to 

 small cross vein ; epaulets red ; costal spine not developed. 



Length, 7.5 mm. 



Male. — Unknown. 



Type.— Female, U.S.N.M. no. 50561. 



Remarks. — Described from one female specimen in the United 

 States National Museum labeled Havana, Cuba (Baker), collection 

 J. M. Aldrich. 



(10) CUPHOCERA CONTIGUA, new species 



Male. — Front at vertex 0.386 of the head width (average of five, 

 0.38; 0.39; 0.4; 0.38; 0.38), widening rapidly below; parafrontals 

 yellow on upper part becoming blackish downward, with rather 

 dense gray pollen which extends to the vertex ; median stripe yellow, 

 narrower than one paraf rontal on entire length ; verticals two pairs, 

 large; ocellars absent; frontal bristles descending about to apex of 

 second antennal segment, lowermost bristle close to eye, the upper two 

 slightly longer, divergent and reclinate; a secondary row of four or 

 five frontal bristles outside the main row on widest part of front; 

 face and cheeks yellow, covered with thick grayish-white pollen; 

 antennae red, third segment infuscated, rather evenly convex from 

 base to tip on front edge and only slightly longer than second seg- 

 ment; arista black, moderately thick, tapering to tip, penultimate 

 segment elongate; paraf acial black-haired with two large bristles 

 near eye on lower part; face protuberant on the lower border, its 

 ridges flat and practically bare ; apical segment of proboscis tapering 

 outward, shining brownish black, labella small; palpi absent; cheek 

 clothed with black hairs, about four-fifths the eye height; back of 

 head gray pollinose, thickly clothed with pale hairs. 



Thorax gray pollinose, with four dark dorsal stripes which are 

 poorly defined behind suture; pleural hairs black; scutellum red 

 beyond base, dusted with gray pollen. Chaetotaxy : Acrostichal, 3, 3 

 dorsocentral, 3, 3; intraalar, 3; supraalar, 3; postalar, 2; humeral, 6 

 posthumeral, 3 (anterior one small); notopleural, 2; presutural, 2 

 pteropleural, 2; sternopleural, 2, 1; scutellum with 4 marginal (one 

 nearest base small), a decussate apical pair, and several weak bristles 

 scattered on disk; postscutellum black, gray pollinose; calypters 

 opaque, white. 



Abdomen subshining, reddish with a broad dark median stripe on 

 the intermediate segments which expands on the narrow hind margin 

 of the third and includes most of the first, the extreme apex of the 

 fourth also sometimes blackish ; dusted with thin gray pollen, which 

 is changeable in different angles of view; first segment without 

 median marginals; second with a pair and one at the side; third 

 bearing a marginal row of 10 or 12; fourth with a discal row 



