INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 13'5 
apical segments dark brown. Frontal prolongation of the head 
dull light yellow with a sparse pale whitish bloom. Antennae 
short, the first scapal segment elongate, dull yellow; second 
segment very short, brownish yellow; flagellar segments very 
short, dark brown, little constricted beyond the basal enlarge- 
ment which occupies about a third to a quarter of the total 
length of the segment. Head light gray, the occiput browner, 
a very indistinct, narrow, median, brown line. 
Pronotum dull brownish yellow. Mesonotal prsescutum 
light gray with three very broad brown stripes which suffuse 
most of the dorsum, the lateral margins clear light gray; pseu- 
dosutural fovea a semilunar subshiny pit; scutum clear light 
gray throughout; scutellum and postnotum dull brownish yel- 
low with a sparse grayish bloom. Pleura pale brownish yel- 
low with a clear light gray bloom. Halteres brownish yellow, 
the knobs dark brown. Legs with the coxse dull yellow, 
sparse-gray pruinose ; trochanters light yellow ; femora brown- 
ish yellow becoming darker toward the tip ; tibi?s and tarsi dark 
brown. Wings grayish subhyaline, the costal area and stigma 
brownish yellow; a slight yellowish suffusion along vein Cu; 
veins dark brown ; a narrow vitreous band before the cord ex- 
tending from the end of vein Sc, largest and brightest before 
the stigma, passing into the base of cell M^. 
Abdominal tergites with the first two segments yellowish, 
the remaining tergites darker brownish ; the sclerites with the 
caudal margin ringed with silvery; sternites brownish yellow, 
their caudal margins very narrowly silvery. Hypopygium 
rather enlarged, the ninth tergite quite similar to that of T. 
georgiana, the lateral angles produced caudad and slightly 
proximad into truncated lobes whose inner margin is sub- 
acutely angular, not evenly rounded; the median convexity 
rounded, shiny ; ninth pleurite rather large, complete ; the inner 
pleural appendage produced caudad in an elongate, subacute, 
pale, fleshy lobe, somewhat as in translucida Doane; eighth 
sternite with a broad median membranaceous shield on the 
caudal margin, the lateral angles produced proximad into fleshy 
lobes which bear dense tufts of rather coarse golden-yellow 
