NO. 1906. S5 A iir.-i.-^ ni \ i.n i h'ol-IVM, I.I MXOBIX.IC—A /.B.V.l.VflivA'. 537 



mni.; liind leg, femur, 7.2 mm.; tibia, S.5 nun.; head: it)strum and 

 palpi ilark brouni; antennro: two basal segments dark brownish- 

 black, thii'il segment bright yellow, fourth darker, browiiisJi-yellow, 

 remainder dark brown; front, vertex, and occiput brown, deeper, 

 more riclily coloreil bebinil, yellow immediately surroimding the eyes. 



Thorax: pronotum brown; mcsonotum: prsescutum, anterior half 

 deep chestnut-browii, the extreme cephalic margin darker bro-\vn, the 

 posterior half with a tawny yellow bloom and with four brown spots; 

 scutum pale yellow on the anterior half, rich brown behind, connected 

 along the lateral edge of the sclcrite with the brown of the anterior 

 part of the prjescutum ; scutellum dark browii ; postnotum light brown. 

 Pleuraj pale silver)- with four rich brown stripes, the most doi-sal of 

 wliich begins on the doi-sum of the pronotum, rujis obliquely around 

 to the scutellum, the second, or epipleural, begins on the venter of 

 the pronotum, continues caudad, obliquely, to the postnotum, where 

 it spreads over the sclerite, the third, or episternal, band runs above 

 (jhe coxaj; sternum dark brown, constituting the fourth stripe. Ilalt- 

 eres pale A'cllowish-brown, knob rather darker basally. Legs: coxae 

 brown medially, paler at the ends; trochanters j-ellow. Legs all simi- 

 lar to one another in coloration; femora light brownish-yellow witli a 

 conspicuous pale yellow- apical band; tibiae pale j-ellow throughout; 

 tarsi pale yellow, the terminal segments 3-ellowish-orange. 



Wings hyaline, with two irregular brown bands across the wing; 

 the proximal one more regular on its outer margin; the distal band 

 has three fmgcr-like projections on its inner margin along Rs, il, 

 and Cu, respectively; the bands are more or less distinctly margined 

 with darker. (See. fig. 35.) 



Abdomen: Tergum light brown, the apices of the segments very 

 light yellow, this color continuing back along the lateral edge; a 

 dark brown median line; ninth segment j'ellow-; valves of the ovi- 

 positor reddish; steraum pale brown, very pale along the lateral 

 edge. 



Habitat. — Iloloiypc. — Female, San Antonio, Bolivia (received from 

 Staudingcr and Bang-Haas, Germany). 



7'(//>f- — In autiior's collection. 



EPIPHRAGMA FABRICII, new name. 



:"pida viaculata F.\bp.icius, Syst. Antl., 1805, p. 'AO (not T. maculata Linnsous 

 nor T. maculala Meigen) (lSO-1). 



Llmnohia maculala WiiiDEM.i.xN, Dipt. E,\ol., vol. 1, 1821, p. 16; Auss. Zweifl. 

 Ins., vol. 1, 1828, p. 29.— Hu.nter, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 26, 1900, 

 p. 289.— Kertesz, Catalogus Dipteroum, vol. 2, 1902, p. 174. 



2!ale.. — Length, 10-11. .5 mm; wing, 14 mm. 



Head: rostrum light brown, palpi blackish-brown; clyjjoal region 

 and anterior portion of the front to just behind the origin of the 



