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segment, base only a little enlarged, ovate, pectinations long, at 

 least twice as long as the entire segment, pedicel longer than that 

 of the 5th segment; segments 7 to 11 with the bases oval, pectin- 

 ations very long, pedicels long and slender; 12th segment, with 

 the swollen base elongate-ovate, pectinations and pedicel shorter 

 than in the 11th segment; 13th segment, base elongate, pectina- 

 tions short, about as long as those of segment 4 but more slender, 

 pedicel short; 14th segment slender, more enlarged basally. Seg- 

 ments 1-2 dark browTi; segment 3 and bases of succeeding seg- 

 ments light brown; pectinations dark brown wth numerous pale 

 hairs; pedicels very pale, almost white; two long hairs on side 

 of each basal swelling, opposite to the pectinations. Front with 

 a conspicuous tubercle in the middle; vertex between the eyes 

 very narrow. Front, vertex and occiput very dark brown, sparse- 

 ly gray pruinose. 



Thorax : cervical sclerites dark brownish-black. Pronotum 

 very dark brown. Mesonottim, pra;scutum_ rich reddish -brown, 

 darker brown dorsally, in front and on the caudal half; scutum, 

 lobes dark brown with a large yellow spot in the center of each; 

 scutellum yellowish-brown ; postnotum dull yellow. Pleurae, pro- 

 pleurae dark brown on dorsal half, light yellow pollinose on ventral 

 half ; cephalic two-thirds of the mesopleurae light yellow ; remain- 

 der of pleurae verj- dark brown. Halteres light yellow. Legs 

 broken; fore coxa and trochanter light yellow; middle and hind 

 coxae very dark brown basally; apically, and the trochanters, 

 pale, whitish. Wing: light yellow, the cells C and Sc rather 

 brighter; no large brown blotches along costa, as in maculata, 

 costalis and calverti; a .small brown spot at end of 5c, another on 

 cross-vein r; a larger brown spot at origin of Rs; a large spot at 

 tip of 2nd A. Faint narrow seams along the cross-veins and 

 deflections of \-eins, especially on Cm, just above the fork of Cu. 

 Numerous ])alc graj-ish-brown dots sprinkled in most of the cells 

 (cells Sc and 1st M. excepted). (See fig. c). Venation: .V 

 rather long, ending before the middle of Rs; cell 1st M. small; 

 basal, deflection of Cu. far before the fork of M. 



Abdomen: Tergum dull yellow; segments 2 and 3 mostl\- 



dark brown; 4 to 7 dark bro^\Ti apically; sternum dull yellow. 



Holotype, male, North Brazil, August 17, 1911 (coll. H. E. 



Crampton). Type in coll. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. I take pleasure 



