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2 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 59 



narrow truncate, Testaceous; head (except palpi), antennae, spot on 

 prescutum, apical two abdominal segments, anterior tarsi, four 

 posterior tibiae and tarsi black. Wings brownish, venation black. 



Male. — Length 6 mm. Agrees very well with the above descrip- 

 tion of the female. Hypopygidium rather narrowly rounded apically. 



Type locality. — Paraiso, Canal Zone, Panama. One female (type) 

 collected January, 191 1. Trinidad River, Panama. One male (allo- 

 type) collected May, 191 1. Both collected by August Busck. 



Type.— Cat. No. 14586 U. S. N. M. 



PTILIA LAUTIFORMIS, new species 



Colored like Ptilia lauta Konow, but may be separated from that 

 species by the absence of the depression in front of the anterior 

 ocellus. 



Female. — Length 8 mm. Labrum broadly rounded apically ; 

 clypeus gently arcuately emerginate, lobes broad, rounded apically; 

 supraclypeal foveae small, punctiform ; supraclypeal area large, tri- 

 angular in outline, more strongly convex dorsally ; antennal furrows 

 broad, shallow, complete to lateral ocelli ; no depression in front of 

 the anterior ocellus ; postocellar line distinctly longer than the ocell- 

 ocular line; rlagellum strongly tapering, curved; stigma broadest 

 where the cubitus joins it, sharply tapering to apex; hind basitarsis 

 longer than the following joints ; sheath straight above, broad at 

 base, emarginate beneath, apex narrowly pointed, Testaceous ; head 

 (except below antennae and mouth parts), apex of flagellum, meso- 

 notum, apical four abdominal segments, apex of hind tibiae and 

 hind tarsi black. Wings black, except a broad (from basal vein to 

 apex of stigma) yellow band ; venation color of wings. 



Male. — Length 7 mm. Very like the female. Hypopygidium 

 narrowly rounded apically. 



Type locality. — Alhajuelo, Panama. Two females (one type) 

 collected April, 1911, Cabima, Panama. One female collected May 

 24, 191 1, Taboga Island, Panama. Four females and three males 

 collected June, 1911. All collected by August Busck. 



Type.— Cat. No. 14583 U. S. N. M. 



ERYTHRASPIDES RUFONOTA, new species 



Superficially like sumichrastii (Norton) but is not that species. 

 Female. — Length 5.5 mm. Clypeus short, anterior margin broadly 

 produced in the middle ; supraclypeal foveas confluent with the an- 



