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differences are mentioned in the key and. descriptions. The species 

 is not represented in the United States National Museum, and I have 

 not seen the single type specimen. 



(4) CUPHOCERA SCUTELLARIS, new species 



Male. — Front narrower than usual, before vertex 0.322 of the head 

 width (average of five, 0.32; 0.33; 0.31; 0.33; 0.32), widening rap- 

 idly below ; paraf rentals black, covered with dense dull gray pollen 

 to vertex; frontal stripe yellow, narrowed toward triangle and at 

 middle hardly as wide as one paraf rental; ocellars Avell developed; 

 verticals two pairs, inner ones decussate and the outer divaricate; 

 frontal bristles about nine in a row, the upper one largest, suberect 

 and slightly divergent, the lower one at middle of parafacial near 

 level with middle of second antennal segment; a secondary row of 

 four or five f rentals outside the main row on widest part of front; 

 face and cheeks yellow in ground color, covered with lusterless pale 

 grayish-white pollen; parafacial black haired, w4th three or more 

 moderately large bristles in a row on lower half nearest the ej^e ; face 

 with the lower border protuberant, its ridges flat bearing three or 

 four bristles next to the vibrissae; basal segments of antennae red 

 or yellow, the third black except at base, weakly convex or almost 

 straight in front, distinctly longer than second segment; arista 

 black, short, tapering uniformly to tip, penultimate segment elon- 

 gate; cheek clothed with rather sparse longish black hairs, about 

 three-fourths the eye height; proboscis rather slender, apical segment 

 shining brown, tapering outward from base, labella small; palpi 

 absent; back of head thickly pale haired. 



Thorax gray pollinose and when vieAved from the rear with four 

 broad subshining black stripes, the outer ones interrupted at the 

 suture ; pleura black haired ; scutellum red at apex, dusted with gray 

 pollen. Chaetotaxy: Acrostichal, 2, 3; dorsocentral, 3, 3; intraalar, 

 2 (none near suture); supraalar, 3; postalar, 2; presutural, 2; 

 notopleural, 2; humeral, 4; pesthumeral, 3; pteropleural, 2; sterno- 

 pleural, 2, 1 ; scutellum with 2 marginal, a smaller decussate apical, 

 and a still weaker reclinate subdiscal pair; postscutellum black, 

 dusted with gray pollen; calypters opaque, white. 



Abdomen reddish on the sides and apex above, subshining, 

 with thin gray pollen, which is changeable in different angles 

 of view; first segment without median marginal bristles; second 

 bearing one pair; third with a marginal row of about 12; fourth 

 with numerous bristles above en apical half or mere; intermediate 

 segments without discal bristles; genitalia reddish with the usual 

 large platelike lobe on the sides; inner forceps rather long and 

 miited with a slightly raised median line behind, base flat, meder- 



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