078 JOSÉ H.- PAZOS sanidad y beneficencia 



de fotografiar; pues nunca deja quietas las patas posteriores, que en el reposo 

 pasan por encima de su cuerpo, formando un arco de gran curva. No sube á 

 más de un metro del suelo para picar, jjrefiere las manos y dedos. 



Número 41. — Wieomyia sororcula, (Dyar y Knab). 



(Vide pág. .t1). 



La descripción que sigue procede de Dyar y Kuah ( P )■ o c. B. i o 1 o g i e a 1 

 S o c. Wash., XIX, 139. 1906). Especie nueva para la Isla, de Cuba, Pazos 

 capturó, 1909. 



Diagnosis. 



Pro b o s c i s rather swoUen towards tlie tip, black. P a 1 p i one-eighth 

 as long as the proboseis, brouzy black. B y e s separated at the vértex by a rath- 

 er broad wedge. Oceiput clothed with flat brown seales with metallic 

 reflection, a silvery white spot at the vértex and uarrow border along the lower 

 half of the eye. 



P r o t h o r a c i c 1 o b e s clothed with silvei-y wliite seales. M o s o n o- 

 tum light bro^Ti Avith submetallie reflection. Pleura with elliptieal flat 

 -i'very white seales. Abdomen subcylindrical, compr&ssed, trúncate at the tip; 

 dorsal vestiture blaek with a slight bronzy and blue reflection ; venter yellowish 

 white, the eolors separated on the sides in a straight line. L e g s black with 

 bron.^y and blue refel reflection, the femora whitish beneath; tibiae and tarsi 

 with brassy luster beneath mid legs Avith the apical portion of the second, the 

 third. fourth and fifth joints silvery white within ; the hind legs have all the 

 joints with the basal halves white beneath. Length about 4.5 mm. 



The male is unknowTi. 



Described from Santo Domingo. 



Número 42. — Wieomyia minor, (Dyar y Knab). 



(Vide píig. 51). 

 Description 



F e m a 1 e. — P r o b o s e i s modérate, swollen apically, vestiture blaek with 

 bronzy reflection. P a 1 p i short, flattened, one-eighth as long as the proboseis, 

 bronzy blaek. Oe c i p u t clothed with flat bro\Ani seales with a metallic reflec- 

 tion, a silvery white spot at the vértex and a narrow border along the lower half 

 of the eye, w'idening to a patch below. Prothoracic lobes elliptieal, remote dor- 

 sally, clothed with flat silverj- white seales; a row of black setae anteriorly. 

 M e s a n o t u m clothed with elliptieal, flat brown seales with bronzy reflection, 

 the seales on the anterior and lateral angles whitish. S e u t e 1 1 u m trilobate, 

 the vestiture similar to and continuólas with that nf the mesouotum, each lobo 

 with a small tuft of black bristles. M e t a n o t u m elliptieal, promineut, with 

 a low, broad median carina, dark browu, a group of small setae on the posterior 

 margin. Post seutellum similary clothed to the abdomen. Pleura dark brown, 

 the coxae luteous, cloathed with elliptieal, flat, silvery white seales. Abdomen 

 .subcylindrical, trúncate at the tip, with long, dark bro\vn terminal setae; dorsal 



