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(7) CUPHOCERA AUSTRALIS (Townsend) 



SpanipalpMs australis Townsend, Rev. Chilena Hist. Nat., vol. 31, p. 164, 1927. 



Closely resembles Chiloepalpus {Cuphocera) aurea Aldrich, but 

 differs in having the propleura bare and no discal bristles on the 

 intermediate abdominal segments. 



Female. — Front at extreme vertex 0.327 of the head width in the 

 one specimen, widening rapidly to base of antennae; parafrontals 

 black, subshining, lightly dusted with plumbeous pollen; ocellars 

 well developed ; verticals tAvo pairs, inner ones decussate the outer 

 divergent; orbital bristles two, proclinate; frontals about nine 

 arranged in a single row, moderately large, the lower one close to 

 eye about on level with middle of second antennal segment; para- 

 facial yellow, this color sharply limited along the lower frontals and 

 black upward, black haired with a single stout bristle on lower part ; 

 front edge of mouth strongly protuberant, face yellow, with thin 

 subshining pale pollen, its ridges flat, bearing two or three bristles 

 next to the vibrissae; basal segments of antennae deep yellow, the 

 third largely black and obliquely truncate at apex, slightly exceeding 

 the length of second segment; arista brownish black, third segment 

 flattened near base, pubescent, penultimate segment long; cheek 

 yellow, thinly poUinose and clothed with long black hairs, about 

 two-thirds the eye height ; proboscis moderately stout, distal segment 

 slightly tapering toward tip, shining brownish black; minute or 

 rudimentary palpi present, yellowish, bearing several black hairs; 

 back of head with a ruff of golden hairs which are sparser and 

 somewhat paler on the upper part. 



Thorax black, gray pollinose; mesonotum marked with four 

 black stripes; pleura black haired; scutellum black and sub- 

 shining, lightly dusted with gray pollen. Chaetotaxy: Humeral, 5; 

 posthumeral, 2; notopleural, 2; presutural, 2; acrostichal, 3, 3; 

 dorsocentral, 3, 4; intraalar, 3; supraalar, 3; postalar, 2; ptero- 

 pleural, 2; sternopleural, 2, 1; scutellum with two marginal and a 

 smaller slightly upturned decussate apical pair, disk sparsely haired, 

 bearing a wide-spaced discal and a more closely approximated sub- 

 apical pair; postscutellum black, thinly pollinose, pale membi-anous 

 above; calypters opaque, white, the rims faintly tmged with yellow. 



Abdomen shining black, with thin gray pollen, apex of fourth seg- 

 ment bright yellow, this color extending forward on the median line 

 about to basal third ; first segment without median marginals; second 

 bearing a rather long stout pair ; third with a row of about 12, with 

 wider space between the median and the next bristle toward the side ; 

 fourth with a pair of discals situated before the middle and nu- 

 merous bristles behind these on apical half; intermediate segments 



