ceropalinae: tribe minageniini 



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above weaklj^ infuscate, underside of front femur, outer side of all 

 tibiae, and hind tarsus fuscous, and hind tibia \\dth a board, ill-defined, 

 fuscous subbasal band; tergites tinged with fulvous apically; first and 

 second tergites each with a lateral fulvous blotch. 

 Specimen: 9 (type), Fedor, Lee County, Tex, (Cambridge). 



Figure 137. — Localities for Minagenia osoria. 



6. Minagenia osoria (Banks) 



Plates 3, figure 38; and 4, figure 45 



Nannochilus osoria (as Ageniella osoria, p. 178) Banks, 1944, Bull. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., vol. 94, pp. 172, 178, cf . Type: d", Falls Church, Va. (Cambridge). 



Male: Forewing 5.5 to 6.2 mm. long; sternites 2 to 5 with numer- 

 ous long suberect hairs that are about 3.0 as long as the ordinary 

 clothing hairs, the tips of the long hairs bent; subgenital plate oblance- 

 olate with a rounded apical point, the edges curled up so that it looks 

 quite narrow; squama apically very slender, with sparse, oblique, 

 rather short bristles near its apex and along its outer edge. 



Color variable but usually as described here. Black. Apical part 

 of mandible reddish brown; labrum, tibial spurs, and front tarsus 

 stramineous, the apical tarsal segment dark brown; palpi brown, 

 darker basally; knees and apex of front tibia brownish; wings subhya- 

 line. Variant colorations include a pale stramineous brown clypeus, 

 palpi, most of scape, and hind margin of side part of pronotum; 

 light rufous legs, tegula, and basal 0.6 of abdomen; and brown hind 

 tibia and middle and hind tarsi. Intermediates between the dark 

 and light types of coloration are at hand. 



Female: Unknown, though possibly confused with females of 

 clypeata or julia. 



Specimens: cf, Washington, D. C, May 16, 1949 (Shappirio). 

 cT, Takoma Park, Md., July 12, 1947, D. Shappirio (Shappirio). 



