264 SMITHSOXIAX MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 52 



WYEOMYIA CONCHITA, new species 



Proboscis moderate, distinctly swollen towards the apex. Occiput 

 dark-scaled with bronzy and iridescent luster, a patch of silver scales 

 on the vertex. Prothoracic lobes entirely silver-scaled. Abdomen 

 dark-scaled above with faint bronzy and blue luster, the tip silver- 

 scaled, venter white-scaled, the colors separated on the sides in a 

 straight line. Legs dark-scaled, paler with brassy luster beneath, 

 the mid tarsi white beneath on the tip of the second and the last three 

 joints, hind tarsi broadly white-marked at the bases of all the joints 

 beneath. Wing-scales narrow. Length, 2.5 mm. 



Fourteen specimens, San Antonio de los Bafios, Cuba (J. H. 

 Pazos). 



Type no. 12180, U. S. N. M. 



WYEOMYIA DRAPETES, new species 



Proboscis short, swollen at the tip. Occiput dark-scaled, the eyes 

 with a margin of white scales, widening into a spot on the vertex. 

 Palpi white-tipped. Prothoracic lobes dark-scaled with silvery white 

 tip and base. Abdomen dark-scaled above, white beneath, the colors 

 separated on the sides in a straight line. Legs dark-scaled. Wing- 

 scales short, dense and cuneiform on the forks of the second, third, 

 and fourth veins. Length, 3.5 mm. 



Male similar to the female, the palpi entirely white-scaled; mid 

 tarsi with the outer half of the second and the last three joints pale 

 brassy without. 



Three specimens, San Juan, Trinidad, British West Indies, larvae 

 in bamboo stumps, associated with Sabethes undosus Coq. (A. 

 Busck). 



Type no. 12181, U. S. N. M. 



WYEOMYIA CARA, new species 



Proboscis rather short, swollen towards the apex. Occiput clothed 

 with dark scales, a white margin along the eyes and a longitudinal 

 stripe on the vertex. Prothoracic lobes blackish with dark brown 

 and violet reflections. Abdomen with the colors separated on the 

 sides in a straight line. Wing-scales broadly ovate, their tips ob- 

 liquely subtruncale, dense on the second and fourth veins. Legs 

 black with bronzy and blue reflections, the tibiae and tarsi with pale 

 brassy luster beneath, the last two joints of the hind tarsi with silvery 

 luster beneath. Length, 3.5 mm. 



One specimen, Trinidad, British West Indies, June, 1905 (A. 

 Busck). 



Type no. 12182, U. S. N. M. 



