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and noting the type-locality, I have selected the following specimen 

 as the neotype of the species. 



Male. — Head black, eyes red-brown above, black-brown below; 

 frons small, triangular, extending less than half the distance from 

 the antennal base to the ocellar triangle, rugose with a median 

 groove entering a pit at the dorsal point; back of head concave; 

 mouthi:)arts brown, well developed, filling oral cavity; i)alpi shorter; 

 ocellar tubercle prominent, ocelli orange-red. Antennae black-brown, 

 first segment short; second segment with an orange distal rim; third 

 segment elongate with a lateral distal pit; see figure. 



Thorax dorsum black with transverse striations and a few sparse 

 hairs; humeral and supra-alar calli orange; pleural areas dark red- 

 brown. Wings dusty brown, veins brown; halter stem brown, knob 

 red-brown to black-brown, polished. Legs with femora black-brown, 

 tibiae red-brown, tarsi orange anteriorly to straw colored posteriorly. 



Abdomen red-brown, segments 3 and 4 with broad white stripes. 

 For details of ninth tergum and accessory organs, see figure. 



Female. — Head black, eyes black-brown, with a narrow post- 

 ocular rim; frons broad, under one-third the width of the head, 

 slightly swoUen, rugose with a median depression from the antenna 

 to the ocellar triangle, a pit in its lower third; mouthparts well 

 developed; back of head concave; ocellar tubercle flat, set off; ocelli 

 orange-red. Antennae as in male. 



Thorax as in male. 



Abdomen red-brown. For details of eighth segment and bursa 

 see figure. 



Length: Male body 3.7 mm., wings 2.7 mm.; female body 4.3- 

 4.5 mm., wing 3 mm. 



Neotype locality: Urbana, Illinois; 15 March 1959 (G. T. Riegel). 



Neotype: Male (INHS). 



Paratypes: 2 cfcT, 2 99, Urbana, Illinois, 15 March 1959 

 (G. T. Riegel) reared from granary trash, all with pupal skins, in 

 (USNM) and (INHS); 2 d^cf, 3 9 9, Lafayette, Indiana, 24 June 

 1957 (L. Chandler) (PU); 1 &, Spencer Co., Indiana, 10 April 1953 

 (Montgomery) bean flowers (USNM); 1 &,l 9, La\\Tence, Kansas, 

 15 May 1896, 13 June 1898 (H. Kahl) (CNC); 1 9, Toloma, Illinois, 

 10 May 1927 (CAS). 



100. Scenopinus pecki, new species 



Figure 98 



Male. — Head black, eyes brown above, black below; frons slightly 



swollen, shining, with punctures on either side next to the eye; 



mouthparts brown, well developed; oral opening bordered by silvery 



I)ile that extends to above the antennal bases; ocellar tubercle shin- 



