NO. 196C. SYXOPSIS OF XEOTROriCAL LI.uyOBIN.i:—ALK.\.lM)i:it. 539 

 BPIPHRAGMA PUPILLATA, new species. 



Pale yellow; a narrow brown median line on head; thoracic pleiiras 

 with broad brown bands; fore femora ^\-ith a pale brown siil)a])ical 

 band; -wings siibhyalinc with about nine darker sj)ots along the costal 

 margin and a few pale broA\Ti spots over the rest of the wing; an 

 oceliate mark at the origin of the sector. 



Male. — Length, 7 mm.; wing, 9-9.5 mm.; fore leg, femora, fl nun.; 

 tibia, 7.25 mm.; head: rostrum and palpi brown; antennce yellow; 

 first segment elongate-cylindrical, second rounded-oval, remainder 

 lacking; front, vertex and occiput light yellow, somewhat darker 

 posteriorly %vith a rather narrow dark brouTi median line beginnmg at 

 the narrowest portion of the front, continued caudad; front narrow, 

 about three-fourths of the first antennal segment 



Thorax: pronotum, yellow, brownish medially, with three dark 

 browm rounded spots, the median one in front on the scutum, the 

 lateral ones larger on sides of the scutellum. Mesonotum: prsescutum, 

 pale brownish-yellow, the lateral and cephalic margins of the sclerite 

 broadly brown, contmuiiig back to the wing-bases, a similarly colored, 

 veiy naiTow median line begins at the cephalic margin of the prse- 

 scutum, continues backward with more or less distinctness to the 

 suture; scutum yellowish, brownish medially, this color broadened 

 •out on the caudal margin; scutellum pale yeUow; post-notum, brown- 

 ish-yellow. Metanotum darker, browTi. Pleurte: a naiTow oblique, 

 brow-n band running from the collare caudad to the wing bases, 

 inclosing the mesothoracic stigma, bounded on either side by a \ery 

 narrow pale line; remainder of pleurae and sterna dark brown. ITal- 

 tercs light yellow', the apical half of the stem and base of the knob 

 slightly infaiscated. Legs : coxae yellow, browoi basally ; fore leg, onh', 

 remains; femur light yellow with a pale browai suba])ical band; tibia 

 light yellow throughout; tarsi lacking. 



Wings (see fig. 37) subhyaline, nine browni spots along the anterior 

 margin, the second being at the humeral cross-vein, fourth over the 

 origin of Pi-, fifth, at the supernumerarj"- cross-vein, sixth, at the 

 tip of Sc,, seventh, at tip of E„ eighth and ninth, at tips of R, and 

 R3, respectively. A distinct eye-like spot, its pupil at the angulation 

 of K5, pale brown. Thi-ee dark brown spots in cell Sc, under the 

 thii-d to fifth costal spots described above. Other pale brown marks 

 on the wing disk, as follows: semicircular extending from the third 

 costal spot backward across the base of cells R and M; a row of seven 

 in cell second arial; one at tip of vein second anal; two at the end 

 of cell first anal ; four in the distal half of cell Cu ; one at end of cell 

 M, in cell Cu and in cell M^; two in cell 'SU, two or three in cell R5; 

 a large one about the stigma, extending down into cells first Ri, Rj, 

 and base of R3; a semicircular one in cells first R, and end of R, 

 crossing the end of the sector; this last, with the stigmal spot, forms 



