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Genus PENTEMYIA, new genus 



Type species : Wyeomyia drapetes Dyar & Knab. 



But a single species at present known. Others may be 

 found among the species of Wyeomyia with dark prothoracic 

 lobes when the males are known. 



Pentemyia bromeliarum Dyar & Knab. 



Wyeomyia asiitle[^ta Dyar & Knab (not Theobald), Journ. N. Y. 



Ent. Soc, xiv, 228, 1906. 

 Wyeomyia bromeliarum Dyar & Knab, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 



xix, 138, 1906. 

 Wyeomyia drapetes Dyar & Knab, Smiths. Misc. Colls., Quart. 



iss., Hi, 264, 1909. 

 Wyeomyia espartana Howard, Dyar & Knab (in part, not Dyar 



& Knab), Mosq. No. & Cent. Am. & W. I., iii, 108, 1915. 



The identification with asidlepta, adopted by Dyar & Knab, 

 is remote, as that species has golden yellow prothoracic lobes. 

 The name bromeliarum is unfortunate, as the larvae live in 

 bamboo joints and not in Bromeliacese. In the monograph we 

 place bromeliarum widely separated ; but that is due to an 

 error of observation, for, while the type is only represented 

 by two legs, another specimen from the same collector shows 

 white tips on the prothoracic lobes. Correcting this will cause 

 brom^eliarum and drapetes to fall together. The type of es- 

 partana has long scales on the bases of the forks of the second 

 vein as stated by us ; but this is not the case with the specimens 

 from Panama associated with espartana in the monograph. 

 The name espartana must remain founded upon the single 

 female type, the male being unknown, and its characters as 

 given in the monograph canceled. There remain the slight 

 differences given in the genitalia in the monograph (compare 

 Pis. 2 and 3, figs. 8, 9, and 12) ; but these I do not verify on 

 reexamination. They are due to the artist having attempted 

 to draw too accvirately and represent things which she really 

 could not see. The delicate outlines of these parts are diffi- 

 cult to follow, especially with imperfect mounts. 



