NO. 1060. SYXOPSIS OF ySOTROPICAL LIMyOmy.i:— ALEXANDER. 545 



whitish-5'ollow apicjilly, remaining sognaents, except the last, white, 

 ultimate segment black. Front rather broad; head triangular behind ; 

 eyes conical, with coarse ommatidia; front, vertex, and occiput light 

 silvery gray. 



Thorax: pronotum white; mesonotum: praBscutum pearl gray, 

 wliitish along the lateral margin; no evidence of a pseudo sutural 

 pit or fovea: scutum gray, j-ellower caudad; post-notum dull gray. 

 Pleurae liglit brownish-yellow, the sternum clear light yeUow. IlaJ- 

 tcres long, slender, light brown. Legs long, slender; cox£e light yel- 

 low; remainder of the legs light brownisli-yellow, the apical segments 

 darker. 



Wings pearly white; stigma pale bro%vn; veins light bro^vnish- 

 yellow. Venation: Sc long, S<-, ending about opposite to the fork 

 of the sector; Sc, near its tip; E, long, rather close to R,. Rj short, 

 gently arcuated; R;+3 gently arcuated, short, equal to H^', R2 

 short, oblique; R3 long, feebly sinuated. M^+2 fused to the wing 

 margin; cross- vein m obliterated; fusion of Cu, with M3 about equal 

 to M3 before the basal deflection of Cu,, both shorter than the deflec- 

 tion; second anal long, gently suiuatetl. (See fig. 19.) 



Abdomen brown, the ovipositor yellow. 



Habitat. — Holoiype. — Female, Cinchona, Jamaica, West Indies, Feb. 

 24, 1911. 



Type. — In American ^Museum of Natural History. 



Tlic open cell first Mj may be an abnormality of the specimen; if 

 not, the insect may be the representative of a new subgenus. 



LIMNOPHILA LENTOIDES, new species. 



^fale. — Length, 5.2-5.4 mm; wing, 6.9-7 mm. Head: Rostrum 

 and palpi brown; antennae: basal segment elongate-cylindrical, 

 second globular, cyathiform, dull yellow; flagellar segments rather 

 regularl}' oval, clothed watli a fine pubescence, dark brownish-black. 

 Front and anterior portion of the vertex gray ; caudal portion of the 

 vertex, and the occiput, gradually darker brown. 



Thorax : pronotum distinct, bro\vn with a grey bloom, ilesonotum 

 brown with a ycno\vish-grey bloom ; pseudosutural pit on thopraiscu- 

 tum, small, scmilunate, black. Pleurte Light gray. Ilalteres long, 

 light brown. Legs: coxse and trochanters flight yelow; femora 

 yellowish-brown; tibise and tarsi light bro\vn. 



Wings subhyaline. with brownish-yellow veins. (See fig. 21.) 



Abdomen: tergites bro^vn; sternites duU yeflow. 



Female. — The female is larger and has the wuigs strongly tinged 

 with yellow (length, 8.8 mm.; wing. 8.8 mm.). This specimen lacks 

 a ceU first M2 in both mngs. 



Parat)-pe No. 1 is like the type but the mcsothoracic pra-scutum 

 shows four indistinct brown stripes, two long, narrow ones on either 

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