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almost discal, and two long and strong sub-basal marginal bristles 

 and usually two weak basal hairs on the margin, pleurae opaque 

 black, yellowish on sutures and posteriorly low down, pleural bristle 

 strong; abdomen with basal segment as long as next two, all seg- 

 ments with lateral bristles and the apical two with posterior mar- 

 ginal bristles, hypopygium yellowish, not very large, with central 

 posterior depression and numerous hairs ; legs brown, knee joints, 

 bases of femora and tarsi yellowish, mid trochanters with a long 

 bristle on anterior surface, mid femora with preapical posterior 

 bristle and a series of about five regular short bristles, the apical 

 one slightly longer, on the anterior surface at from about middle to 

 apex, mid tibiae with two ventral bristles, and dorsal bristles situ- 

 ated as in fulva, hind femora with two short preapical antero- 

 ventral bristles, hind tarsi with the basal joint not much dilated and 

 slightly more than half as long as second ; wings brownish, veins 

 brown, from humeral vein to end of first vein half as long as next 

 costal division, the last costal division two-thirds as long as second, 

 basal portion of third vein barely two-fifths as long as last portion of 

 second and equal to fourth vein between cross-veins, outer cross- 

 vein twice as long as inner, third vein regularly bent upward and 

 finishing at distinctly, but not greatly, in front of wing tip, costa 

 not extending beyond end of third vein, the base of costa long 

 fringed to end of first vein, fourth vein indistinct, but traceable 

 to margin beyond outer cross-vein, fifth vein not traceable beyond 

 outer cross-vein ; halteres yellow. Length I mm. 



Locality. — Three specimens, one from Paraiso and two from 

 Tabernilla, Canal Zone, Panama, Jan.-Feb., 191 1 (August Busck). 



Type.—- Cat. No. 14944, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



PREOCCUPIED NAMES IN LIMOSINA 



L. scutellaris, Williston, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., p. 432 (1896) non Haliday, 



Entom. Mag., Ill, 329, 8 (1836). 

 I propose for this species discalis, nov. nom. 

 L. lugubris, Williston, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., p. 433 (1896) non Haliday, 



Entom. Mag., Ill, 332, 18 (1836). 

 I propose for this species sublugubrina, nov. nom. 

 Both species from St. Vincent, W. I. 



