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ately wide tapering outward to a slender apex; outer forceps with 

 a square shoulder near the base behind, beyond this moderately 

 slender and bowed inward when viewed from the rear, tips blunt, 

 shining black; fifth sternite deeply divided, the lobes bearing 

 numerous long black hairs. 



Legs black, tibiae obscurely reddish ; middle tibiae with two large 

 bristles on outer front side; hind tibiae with a scattered row of about 

 five uneven bristles on outer posterior edge, one or two bristles situ- 

 ated near the middle in front and three on the inner hind margin; 

 pulvilli tawny, the front pair noticeably longer and slightly ex- 

 ceeding the length of the last tarsal segment. 



Wings gray-hyaline; fourth vein with an obtuse angular bend, 

 slightly curved inward beyond, thence straight in a diagonal direc- 

 tion gradually narrowing the first posterior cell which is open far 

 before the wing tip ; third vein setulose more than halfway to small 

 cross vein; last section of fifth vein about one-fourth the length of 

 preceding section ; epaulets obscurely reddish ; costal spine vestigial. 



Female. — Front at vertex 0.375 of the head width (one specimen) ; 

 frontal bristles in a single row; two proclinate orbitals present; 

 third antennal segment rather narrow, almost three times as long 

 as broad; median frontal stripe narrower than one parafrontal on 

 entire length; abdomen broadly ovate; first segment with the hind 

 margin rather strikingly oblique at the sides, narrowing the lateral 

 length of the second segment to about two-thirds its median dorsal 

 length; genital opening broadly rounded behind and narrowed in 

 front, ovipositor short, retracted; claws and pulvilli shorter than 

 apical tarsal segment. 



Length, 8 to 10 mm. 



Type.— MfilQ, U.S.N.M. no. 50559. 



Remarks. — Described from 5 males and 1 female. In the United 

 States National Museum 2 males, including the tj^^pe, from Cherry 

 Creek Buttes, Ariz., September 21 (C. H. T. Townsend) . In Charles 

 H. Martin's collection, 3 males and 1 female, Monrovia Canyon, 

 Calif., October 1929 and September 1931 (C. H. Martin). 



(5) CUPHOCERA CONFORMIS, new species 



Very similar to hirsuta but slightly larger; front in male at 

 vertex 0.339 of the head width in the one specimen; parafrontals 

 gray pollinose to vertex ; median stripe yellow, wider than one para- 

 frontal on most of its length; verticals two pairs, strong, the inner 

 ones decussate as usual; orbitals absent; ocellars well developed; 

 frontal bristles extending to middle of second antennal segment, 

 bordered by a secondary row on widest part of front; face with 

 dense grayish-white pollen, the lower border rather prominent in 



