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Three stemopleural bristles, three postsutural, two to three postacros- 

 lichal, and three preacrostichal. Scutellum and abdomen densely set 

 with spinelike macrochaetae over whole dorsal surface, four marginal 

 pairs of ordinary macrochaetae on scutellum. Ventral plates with heavy 

 spine-bunches. Abdomen broad, rounded, subglobose, short-oval. Bend 

 of fourth vein very close to hind margin of wing, apiccJ cell vsddely open 

 a little before wingtip, last section of fourth vein deeply bent in. Claws 

 of male not very long, those of female somewhat shorter. 



Reproductive habit, larviposition of colored maggots, but probably not 

 on foliage. 



Type, Eublepharipeza hystrix, new species. 



Eublepharipeza hystrix, new species. 



Length of body, 9.5 to II mm., not including spines ; of wing, same 

 measurement. One female and one male, Hacienda Charape, valley of 

 Rio Tabaconas, montanya of western Jaen Province, northern Peru, 

 about 4,000 feet, September 19, 191 I, on foliage. 



Wholly black, rather shining ; scutellum vsath a reddish tinge ; thorax 

 silvery pollinose leaving five very indistinct narrow vittae ; pareifrontaJs 

 black, silvery pollinose ; frontalia brown to blackish, antennae brownish 

 to blackish ; palpi pale yellow. Occiput, cheeks, and face silvery ; 

 occipital pile whitish, rest of head hairs black. Tibiae faintly reddish. 

 Wings clear, with faint infuscation at base which extends along costa. 

 Both scales of tegulae deeply smoky, blackish, the front scale whitish on 

 base. 



Type, female. 



Eublepharipeza gabana, new subspecies. 



Length of body, 9 mm. ; of wing, 9.5 mm. One female, Casahuiri, 

 San Gaban Canyon, about 4,500 feet, February 4, 1910, on flowers of 

 Alikania sp. 



Differs from E. hystrix in being rather smaller, with more constricted 

 or narrowed thorax, only four vittae on mesoscutum, the hasal infuscation 

 of wing blacker and not extending along costa, the scutellum more nearly 

 black like abdomen, palpi tipped with brown, front scale of tegulae with 

 but faint trace of the whitish at base. 



Eublepharipeza nigra, new subspecies. 



Length of body, 7 to 1 1 mm., not including spines ; of wing, 7 to 1 I 



