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Length: Male body 3.5 mm., wing 2.5 mm.; female body 3.5-4 

 mm., wing 2.5-2.7 mm. 



Type-locality: Costa Rica. 



Type: Coll. Krober (lost). 



Specimens seen: 21 99, Higuito, San Mateo, Costa Rica (Pablo 

 Schild) (USNM) ; 1 9, 2 mi. n.e. Guadelupe Atodia, Chiapas, Mexico, 

 24 March 1953, (R. C. Baker, E. I. Schlinger) (UCalB) ; 1 9, Constant 

 Spring, Saint Andrew, Jamaica, W.I., 23 August 1964 (T. H. Farr) 

 (SMIJ). 



Figure 106. — Scenopinus veluttnus (Krober), male, female: a, wing; i,c, lateral and frontal 

 aspects of male head; d, e, lateral and frontal aspects of female head;/, enlarged detail of 

 antenna; g-i, ventral, lateral and posterior aspects of male terminalia, ejaculatory mecha- 

 nism lost on dissection; y, ventral aspect of female 8th sternum; k, lateral aspect of female 

 8th and 9th segments; /, female 9th sternum and bursa. 



109. Scenopinus weemsi, new species 



Figure 107 



This small species appears to be closely related to S. mirabilis but 

 apparently has been isolated long enough to be recognized as a 

 distinct species. 



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

 frons narrow triangular, slightly swollen in the middle, rugose but 

 subshining; ocellar tubercle black, prominent, ocelli orange; silvery 

 pile surrounding oral opening. First two antennal segments red-brown ; 

 first short; second about twice as large; third segment dark red-brown, 

 pear-shaped, wider at base, twice as long as wide, truncate at tip. 



