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equal length, the following gradually a little shortened, the apical one 

 very slender. Thorax nearly ovate, the wings having one elongate 

 marginal cell, twice the length of the second and third submarginal 

 cells, the first submarginal being of equal length to the two following ; 

 the second submarginal cell narrowed towards the marginal, receiving 

 the first recurrent nervure in the middle, the second recurrent ner- 

 vure uniting with the apical nervure of the third submarginal cell; 

 one of the spines of the apex of the posterior tibise having on one 

 side a row of bent teeth or hooks resembling a comb ; the pubescence 

 of the scopa beautifully pectinate or feathery. Abdomen ovate, fur- 

 nished with an anal fimbria, and the sixth segment with a naked space 

 margined laterally. 



L. FULVESCENS. Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc, 1876, p. 486. 



Female. Black ; the front clothed with dense fulvous pubescence, 

 palest on the clypeus ; the cheeks have a pale-fulvous pubescence ; 

 the ocelli in a curve on the vertex, which is shining. Thorax : the 

 mesothorax shining and punctured, clothed with fulvous pubescence, 

 which is sparing on the disc ; palest on the sides, beneath, and on the 

 legs ; the apical joints of the tarsi rufo-testaceous ; the posterior tro- 

 chanters with a floccus of pale pubescence, that on the tibise dense and 

 fulvous ; the calcaria pale testaceous ; wings hyaline and iridescent, 

 the nervures pale rufo-testaceous. Abdomen ovate and shining ; the 

 apical margins of the segments narrowly testaceous and thinly fringed 

 with fulvous pubescence; the apical segment with a bright fulvous 

 fimbria. 



Length, 5? lines. 



aenus-DASYCOLLETES. 

 Smith. 

 Head transverse, rounded in front ; antennse, the basal joint 

 elongate-arcuate, about one-third the entire length ; the stemmata 

 placed in a slight curve ; the mentum short and broad, anteriorly 

 pointed in the middle, recurved on each side ; the labium deeply 

 emarginate at the extremity ; the paraglossse scarcely longer than the 

 labium, broad and rounded at their apex; the labial palpi four- 

 jointed, each joint slightly narrower. Maxillary palpi six-jointed, the 

 two basal ones of equal length ; the third two-thirds of the length of 

 the second, the three apical ones being of about equal length, each 

 gradually narrower than the preceding joint; apical joint filiform. 

 Thorax ovate, the superior wings having one elongate marginal cell 

 rounded at its extremity and emitting a short appendicular nervure ; 



