Bullelin of the Brooklyn Entonioloukal Society 17 



Allotype, female, with the type. Paratypes, male and female, 

 with the type. Types in coll. U. S. Nat. Mus. (Ko. 15136); one 

 male parat\'pe in author's collection. 

 Rhipidia domestica amazonensis subsp. n. 



Like dmnestica Osten-Sacken but much larger and darker in 

 color, the thorax much browner, the lateral prsscutal stripes 

 cur\'e distad at their ends, suffusing the lateral edge of the scutum 

 with dark brown; postnotum not conspicuously gray-pollinose ; 

 fore femora very dark brown; wings distinctly tinged wuth brown, 

 markings darker, better defined. Wing, fig. b. 



Male: Length, about 5.7-5.8 mm.; wing, 5.7-6.5 mm. 

 Female: Length, about 6.1-7.1 mm.; wing, 6-7.8 mm. 



Holotype, male, Igarape-Assu , Para, Brazil, February 3, 1912 

 (H. S. Parish). Allotype, female, w^th the type, February 1 , 1912. 

 Paratypes, 9 cr, 1 9, with the type, January 23rd to Februar\- 4, 

 1912. Types in coll. Cornell University; paratypes in coll. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. and in author's collection. 



Explanation of Plate I. 



(N. B. The wings are all drawn to scale by means of the Cornell pro- 

 jection lantern and show the relative size of the species.) 

 a — Wing of Rhipidia multigutlata, sp. n. cf. 

 b — " " domestica amazonensis, suhsp. n. .<i 



c — " " cramptoni, sp. n. (f . 



d — " " calverli, sp. n. cf. 



e — " " schwarzi, sp. n. cf . 



f — " " domestica angustifrons, subsp. n. <f 



g — " " domestica domestica O. S. 



h — Antenna of " calverti. sp. n. cf. 



i — " " " cramptoni. sp. n. cf. 



