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Mexico, seven, and from Colombia, again, six. On this basis 

 we have the following species : 



Psorophora jamaicensis Theobald. 



Inhabits the southern tier of the Greater Antilles, Jamaica, 

 Santo Domingo, and Porto Rico. The larva has the head- 

 hairs numerous, pecten of the air-tube very short, lateral comb 

 of six scales. 



Psorophora columbiae Dyar & Knab. 



floridcnse D. & K., tcxanum D. & K. 

 Inhabits Cuba, the Bahamas (presumably; I have no male). 

 United States from New York to Florida and Texas. The 

 larva has the upper head-hairs in fives, lower in threes ; pecten 

 of the air-tube reaching near the middle; lateral comb with 

 eight scales. 



Psorophora tolteciim Dyar & Knab. 



Southern Mexico. The Texas records in the monograph 

 presumably refer to columbiae. The larva has the head-hairs 

 numerous ; air-tube with the pecten reaching the middle ; lateral 

 comb of six scales. 



Psorophora funiculus, new species. 



Proboscis with a broad whitish ring. Head and mesonotum 

 with fine brown and silvery scales intermixed, the brown pre- 

 dominating centrally on mesonotum. Abdomen dark-scaled, 

 with large apical segmental triangular white bands. Wing- 

 scales dark and whitish intermixed. Legs brown with whitish 

 scales intermixed, the femora with subapical pale ring; tibiae 

 mottled on the outer side ; tarsi with broad basal white rings, 

 the first hind tarsal also with a broad middle pale ring. Claws 

 of female simple. 



Types, two males, two females. No. 33088, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; 

 Rio Frio, Dept. Magdalena, Colombia, March 4, 1913 (J. H. 

 Egbert). 



