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stripe shorUT than the caudal incdian sti-i])c, runiiini; to the suturi- 

 and overspreading the lobes of the scutum, making the sclerite 

 bi\-ittate; scutellum similar in color to the scutum; postnotum 

 gra>-ish. Pleurae light yellowish-brown with two narrow brown 

 stripes. Halteres light yellow, knob not distinctly darker. Legs 

 coxae traversed by the ventral jjleural band; trochanters light 

 \-ellow ; femora yellow darkened toward the tip ; tibiae and tarsi 

 yellowish-brown. Wings almost hyaline; dark brown clouds at 

 base of cell Sc, at three-fifths of the length of Sc, at origin of Ks; a 

 pale, ciro-ilar hyahne-centered cloud at the stigma; in center of 

 cell 2nd R<, along cord, in centers of radial cells, at tips of the 

 \-eins, etc. Venation see fig. g. 



Abdomen: Tergum brown, ajjices of the sclerites broadly 

 darker brown; genitalia yellow; sternum yellowish-brown. 



Male: Length. .5.3 mm.; wing. 5.4 nun. Female: 4.5-5.8 

 mm.; 6.1-7 mm. 



The specimens that 1 ha\-e before mc are as follows: (1) 

 Baracoa, Cuba, September, 1901 (Aug. Busck), d", wing figured. 

 (2) Balaclava, Jamaica (T. D. A. Cockerell), 9. (3) Vera 

 Cruz, Mexico, December 14, 1907 (Frederick Knab), 9. (4) 

 Cordoba, Mexico, December 25, 1907 (Frederick Knab), 9. (5) 

 Trinidad, June (Aug. Busck), cr'. (6) With the last, 9. 



All of the specimens are in coll. U. S. Nat. Mus., except No. 

 4. which 1 ha\'e retained for my cabinet. 

 Rhipidia domestica angustifrons subsp. n. 



Like (lonicstica Osten-Sacken, but coloration diflereiU. Eyes 

 kirge, in dried specimens light gray, not black, possibly not nonnal; 

 \'ertex between the eyes long and narrow; vertex with a large 

 brown spot in the center. Thorax with the median stripes con- 

 fluent fonning a rectangular mark on the caudal portion of the 

 sclerite; lateral pnescutal stripes very broad, triangular, the usual 

 dots in front of the median blotch are, as a rule, jjroduced into 

 long, narrow streaks, with a third one between them in the middle, 

 making the cephalic half of the praescutum appear trivittate; 

 lobes of the scutum mostly Ijrown; scutellum \'cry jjale. Pleural 

 stripes broader but ill-delimited. Wing, fig. f. 



Male: Length, about 5 mm.; wing, 6 mm. Female: Length 

 about 6.8 mm.; wing, 6.8 mm. 



Holotype, male, Guayaquil, Ecuador (Franci.sco Campos). 



