32 THOMAS SAY TOUXDATION 



Abdomen in bad condition in the specimen; tlie 

 ground color is brown, with thin gray pollen in part, 

 much of the dorsal surface shining; first segment with 

 only lateral bristles ; second with a stout, erect median 

 marginal pair; third and fourth with a marginal ro^v, 

 the latter except the base yellow. 



Hypopygium small, yellow ; first segment appar- 

 ently with one or two pairs of bristles; forceps dark 

 brown, short and nearly straight, rapidly tapering; 

 from behind they are not divergent; accessory plates 

 yellow, triangular, the free angle somewhat drawn 

 out; claspers brown, long, slender and strikingly 

 curved forward, but not apically hooked, the hind one 

 with a long hair; penis small, with a distinct, yellow 

 basal segment; distal segment brownisli-yello^v% 

 widening backward and bearing at apex on each side 

 two black plates, one behind the other, the front one 

 like a stout claw. 



Legs brown, middle femur without comb, middle 

 tibia with two bristles on outer front side, hind tibia 

 not villous; tarsi black, all claws moderately elon- 

 gated. 



Female. Front .336 of head at vertex, which is 

 the narrowest part, orbital as in the male ; ocellar small 

 but distinct; no outer vertical; palpi yellow: bucca 

 one-fifth the eyeheight, with a distinct bristle directed 

 downward on its middle. Abdomen shining reddish- 

 yellow, a little pollinose near base; genital segments 

 retracted, yellow, without noticeable characters. Fe- 

 mora and tibiie concolorous with abdomen. 



Length 4^'2 mm. 



One male, one female; the former is from Tam- 

 pico, Mexico, Oct. 29, 1894, labeled "6448-.57 Town- 

 send. Par: on Siiccinia hrcvis on orange"; in the 

 National Museum Collection. The female is from St. 

 Augustine, Fla., collected by C. W. Johnson, and 

 loaned by him for study. There are other specimens 

 in the Xational jNIuseum, seen but not studied by the 

 writer. 



