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an incomplete ocellus in this region of the vnng. Venation (see 

 fig. 37). 



Abdomen: tei-ga dark brown on segments 1 to 4; segments 5 to 8 

 paler brovvai; sterna, first dark bro^vn, remainder paler brown; hypo-> 

 pygium pale yeUow. 



The paratype differs as follows: 



Similar to the type, but shows the pleural markings better. The 

 broM'ii stripe inclosing the anterior stigma is here pale in front but 

 darker near the wuig-bases, and surrounded by the pale lines described 

 above. Below this is a broad dark bro\\ai stripe, beguining on the 

 ventral side of the pronotum, separating at the fore coxae and con- 

 tinumg back across the epipleurse as a broad, deep chocolate-brown 

 band which becomes more indistinct in the vicinity of the meta- 

 pleurse. Ventrad of this band on the lateral margins of the meso- 

 sterne is a pale silvery bloom, vfiih a dark browii spot above almost 

 continuous with the epipleural band and below changuig to the dusky 

 brown of the venter. 



Wings about as in the holotype, but three spots in the end of cell 

 fijst anal and a few of the other spots encroaching into various cells 

 of the Ming, but the size of these spots seems to be only relative and 

 the number is generally probably as given in the type dcscri])tion. 



Habitat. — Holotype. — ^lale, Chapada, ^latto Grosso, Brazil (H. H. 

 Smith, coll.). Paratype. — Male, same locality and collector. 



Type. — In American Museum of Natural History. 



EPIPHRAGMA BUSCKI, new species. 



Related to E. solatrix and E. sacJceni; differs from both species in 

 its different wing-picture; from solatrix in leg-coloration, etc. 



Male. — ^Length, 8 mm.; wing, 8.2 mm.; head: rostrum yellow; 

 palpi dark brown; antennte with the two basal segments dark 

 brownish-black; remainder broken; vertex and occiput l)ro-\mish- 

 gray, clearer gray nearest the eyes; a brown mark connecting the 

 eyes back of the front; front gray; cervical sclerites and gense blackish. 



Thorax: pronotum dark brown, the scutellum lighter; mesonotum: 

 pra-scutum anteriorly light brown with five narrow brown lines run- 

 ning from the cephalic margin backward, the median one is broadest 

 in front and contmues farthest caudad; caudal margin of the sole- 

 rite with a thick whitish-yellow bloom, in front of wliich is a dark 

 brown band extending from the ends of the transverse suture across 

 the sclerite; the space between the lateral stripes is filled with brown, 

 giving the appearance of but three longitudinal stripes of wliich the 

 lateral ones are broad; scutum light yellow with an indistinct browii 

 transverse band; scutellum brown caudally; postnotum light ochra- 

 ceous-yellow with a brown base and tip; metanotum light yellow. 

 PleuriB light siUcy yellow, with an interrupted dark brown band 

 extending from near the caudal margin of the pronotum back across 



