THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST 
Paralypes, 9 , Virginia, near Plummer's Island; July 14, 1915 
(McAtee). 2 9 's, Great Falls, Virginia; Aug. 11, 1915, Oct. 3, 1915 
(McAtee). 
• The type is in the collection of the Union States Biological 
Survey, the paratypes are in the National Museum and the collec- 
tion of the author. 
Tribe Antochini. 
Genus Teucholahis Osten Sacken. 
Teucholabis lucida, sp. n. 
Male — Length 3.5-4.1 mm.; wing 4.2-4.5 mm. 
Rostrum and palpi black. Antenna? black. Head black with 
a thick light gray pubescence. 
Pronotal scutum dark brownish black, the caudal margin 
paler, browm ; scutellum pale yellowish whit^, interrupted medially 
above by a brownish depression. Mesonotal prsescutum shiny 
black, pilose medially behind, the usual pale interspaces represented 
only by a small reddish brown area in front, just proximad of the 
pseudosutural fovese, and a yellow median patch behind; scutum 
black shiny, with the median area in front pale yellow and with a 
short, pale pilosity; scutellum dull yellow, more grayish basally; 
postnotum black with a gray pile. Pleura light yellowish white 
with a broad black band extending from behind the pronotum 
beneath the wings to the base of the abdomen; a large rounded 
black spot on the sternum just before the middle coxse and a smaller 
patch just behind these coxae; mesosternum suffused with lemon- 
yellow. Halteres short, pale brown. Legs with the coxse and 
trochanters pale testaceous; femora light yellow, the apex broadly 
blackened and slightly enlarged; tibiae and tarsi dark brown, the 
former sometimes paler and narrowly tipped with blackish. Wings 
narrow, hyaline; stigmal spot brown, rounded, conspicuous. 
Abdominal tergites black, the segments narrowly ringed with 
dull reddish yellow on the caudal margin; sternites blackish on the 
basal half, paler, 3/ellowish, caudally. 
Holotype, cT, Dalecarlia Reservoir and outlet, District of 
Columbia; Aug 22, 1915 (McAtee). 
Paratypes, Id^; 1, sex uncertain, topotypic. 
The type is in the collection of the United States Biological 
Survey, paratypes in the collection of the author. 
