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halfway to the prominent oceHar tubercle, ocelli orange-brown; post- 

 gena narrow below and behind the eyes; niouthparts brown, well de- 

 veloped, filling the oral cavity; pal])i brown, nearly as long as the 

 rostrum; oral cavity bordered by silvery pile which extends onto the 

 frons well above the antennal base. Antennae dark red-brown, first 

 segment short, second twice as large as the first, third approximately 

 twice as long as broad, narrowing distally; see figure. 



Thorax dorsum black with a patch of silvery pile above the humeral 

 callus; tips of humeral callus and the supra-allar calli orange; pleural 

 areas red-brown. Wings smoky liyaline, veins tan, fading before end 

 of the wing; halter stem black-brown, knob creamy white. Legs with 

 femora and tibiae red-brown, tarsi straw yellow. 



Abdomen dark red-brown, segments 3-5 with medium broad white 

 bands along posterior edge. For details of terminalia, see figure. 



Female. — Head dark red-brown, eyes red-brown, with a narrow 

 postocular ridge; frons rugose, subshining, swollen above the antennae 

 and depressed medially just above swelling, extending as a slight 

 median depression or line to median ocellus; ocellar tubercle not 

 prominent, ocelli red-brown; oral cavity bordered by a silvery pile 

 which extends above the antennae; mouthparts large, well developed; 

 palpi long, genal area small. Antennae as in the male. 



Thorax dorsum black-brown, with a silvery pilose area above the 

 humeral callus Avhich is red-brown; supra-alar callus tan. Pleural areas 

 red-brown. Wings hyaline, brownish, veins brown; halter stem brown, 

 knob red-brown. Legs with femora and tibiae red-brown, tarsi straw 

 yellow. 



Abdomen red-brown; see figure for details of eighth segment and 

 bursa. 



Length: Male body 3 mm., wing 2 mm.; female body 3.4-4 mm., 

 wing 2.2-2.4 mm. 



Type-locality: Redlands, California; 1 May 1953 (S. Flanders), 

 ex elm branch. 



Holotype: Male (CAS) 8916 (ex [PHT]). 



Allotype: Female same data (CAS). 



Para types: 1 d', 19, same data as type (USNM); 2 99, same 

 data as type; 1 cf. Sierra Madre, Monterey Co., California, 20 

 October 1923 (Armitage) (PHT); 1 d", Long Beach, California, 

 14 August 1949 (A. L. Melander) (USNM). 



92. Scenopinus fi;ossypius, new species 



Figure 90 



This species is widely distributed across the southern United States, 

 from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Information appended to the speci- 



