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with silvery white ; the brassy color of the under surface is interupted beneath by a 

 dark shade on the first and second tarsal joints, the fore femora are mostly bronzy 

 beneath on the apical half. Length, 3 mm. 



Two specimens, Tabernilla, Canal Zone, Panama (August Busck, 

 collector), bred from larvae in the water in leaves of Bromelias. 

 Type. — No. 10857, U. S. National Museum. 



Wyeomyia agnostips, new species. 



Proboscis rather slender, distinctly swollen towards the tip, black scaled ; palpi 

 short, black scaled ; clypeus prominent, black ; occiput dark scaled, with blue and 

 green iridescence, the eyes not margined by pale, a small silvery spot at the vertex, 

 at the sides and beneath bright silvery ; prothoracic lobes large and prominent, well 

 separated, clothed with shining coppery scales, which become violaceous on the 

 sides ; pleura silver scaled ; mesonotum clothed with brown scales, with slight me- 

 tallic luster, basally and on the scutellum with faint greenish reflection, setce at the 

 bases of the wings and on the scutellum golden yellow ; metanotum pitchy brown 

 wilji a bluish bloom, a group of setae towards the apex ; abdomen compressed, clothed 

 above with black scales with greenish luster, beneath with creamy white shining vesti- 

 ture, the colors separated in a straight line on the sides ; legs dark, brassy beneath, 

 the middle pair with the apical three fourths of the second joint and all the succeeding 

 joints silvery white on the inner side, hind legs with the fourth and fifth tars.il joints 

 white on the inner side. Length, 4.5 mm. 



One specimen, Tabernilla, Canal Zone, Panama (August Busck, 

 collector), captured in bamboo woods. 



Type. — No. 10858, U. S. National Museum. 



Wyeomyia homothe, new species. 



Proboscis long and slender, distinctly swollen at the apex ; palpi very short, dark 

 scaled, a few light scales at the tip ; clypeus and tori light brown with fine grayish 

 pubescence ; wedge between the eyes broad, silvery scaled ; occiput entirely dark 

 scaled, the eyes without margin of light scales ; prothoracic lobes large and promi- 

 nent, well separated, clothed with brown scales with violet reflection, the apices 

 broadly silvery as also the base below ; mesonotum clothed with dull-brown scales, 

 the seta; of the scutellum brown ; metanotum pitchy brown, with a group of setae 

 towards the apex; abdomen compressed, black scaled above with greenish luster, 

 extending well down the sides, the venter narrowly creamy-white scaled ; legs long and 

 slender, dark with bronzy luster, the mid legs with the third, fourth and fifth tarsal 

 joints marked with white on the inner side, rather indistinct and only clearly visible 

 in certain lights ; scales of the wing-veins long and narrow. Length, 3 mm. 



One specimen, Tabernilla, Canal Zone, Panama (August Busck, 

 collector), captured in bamboo woods. 



Type. — No. 10859, U. S. National Museum. 



Wyeomyia hosautus, new species. 



Proboscis rather .short and stout, enlarged towards the apex, black scaled ; j>alpi 

 .short, black scaled ; clypeus prominent, black with fine grayish pubescence ; the 



