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lum, separated from the median band by a strip of orange, the whole 

 covered with polHnose scales and a few short hairs; humeral and supra- 

 alar calli cream, with an orange patch between; scutellum cream, with 

 a narrow median red-brown band. Pleura with pro thorax cream; 

 mesanepisternum cream, with a median red-brown patch; meso- 

 katepisternum red-brown, with a dorsal cream band. Wings smoky, 

 veins tan to brown; halter stem brown, knob cream. Legs with 

 femora light brown, tibiae tan, tarsi tan basally, becoming darker 

 distally. 



Abdomen second segment cream, with a red-brown "T" in the 

 anterior two-thirds, posterior segments cream becoming orange with 

 red-brown "T"s becoming less distinct and constricted posteriorly. 

 Eighth segment red-brown; ninth tergum with 7 stiff spines and very 

 abundant hair; see figure for details. 



Male. — Unknown. 



Length: Female body 5 mm., wing 2.3 mm. 



Type-locaHty: Kernville, California; 20 July 1940 (R. H. 

 Beamer) . 



Holotype: Female (UKan) 6294. 



137. Brevitrichia melanderi, new species 



Figure 131 



Female. — Head cream; eyes brown in dried specimen, postocular 

 ridge narrow, unmarked by pigmentation, divided on midline behind 

 ocellar tubercle, covered with short hairs; frons wider than ocellar 

 triangle, with a *'Y"-shaped brown patch with the arms above the 

 antennae, middle of stem darker brown, brown area clothed with 

 short hairs; ocellar tubercle red-brown, ocelli clear; a groove from 

 corner of eye, extending just back of the ocellar triangle to meet the 

 groove from the opposite side and one from the back of the head, 

 anterior to the margin of the back of the head. Antennae with all 

 segments red-brown. See figure for details of the head. 



Thorax dorsum red-brown, probably covered with tan pollen in 

 nongreasy specimens, an orange patch on prothoracic dorsum, humeral 

 and supra-alar calli orange, with a connecting marginal band; scu- 

 tellum orange, with a round red-brown spot covering tlie center. 

 Pleura with prothorax orange, mesanepisternum orange with a red- 

 brown patch, mesokatepisternum red-brown; wings brown, granular, 

 veins brown; halter stem tan, knob cream below, tan above. Legs 

 red-brown changing to brown distally. 



Abdomen segments all brown with light tan posterior membranous 

 margins; eighth segment red-brown; ninth tergum with 8 stiff sphies. 

 See figure for details. 



