NO. 1006. SYXOPSrS OF XEOTROriCA L Ln[\Oni\,T:—A LPl.XA NDER. 547 



triangular black mark between the eyes anil a brown margin on the 

 inside of the eye; vertex tluckly dotted \\'ith brown; occiput gray. 



Thorax: pronotunigray; luesonotum: privscutum, pale brown with 

 a grayish bloom in front, with indistinct darker bro\vn sj)Ots on the 

 caudal half of the sclerite; scutum, light brownish-yellow, with a largo 

 rounded dark brown spot on either side of the median line and a 

 smaller lateral spot wluch is continued cephalad upon the caudal 

 portion of the pra'scutum; scutellum gray, suil'used with brown 

 anteriorly, a blackish edging along the caudal margui; post-notum 

 grey. Pleurae brown, with a decided gray bloom. HaJteres hght 

 yellow. Legs: anterior: coxaB and trochanters light yellow, ro- 

 mamder broken; middle and hind: coxae and trochanters brownish- 

 yellow; femora yellowish-brown; tibiae and tarsi similar, the throe 

 apiciU tarsid segments brown. 



Wings: subhyaline, veins yellow, especially in the cephalic portion 

 of the wing; aU the cells with numerous fine dots of light brown, these 

 dots assuming a reticulated appearance m the caudal cells, con- 

 fluent, fornung large brown blotches about the base of Rs, along 

 the cord and running cephalad over the fork of Rj+ai ^od the 

 apical portions of cells second R,, R,, and R3. Venation (see fig. 38, 

 from which the vnng pattern has been omitted): Sc rather short, 

 ending just beyonil the fork of R3+3; Scj at the tip of Sc,, sUghtly 

 longer than So,; Sc, remote from the tip of R,. Rs long, arcuated 

 at its origin; R,+.3 short; Rj strongly arcuated at its origin; r far 

 back from the tip of R,; Mj+j beyond m longer than either M, or 

 Mj, which are subequal. Basal deflection of Cu, in under the middle 

 of cell first Mj. 



Abdomen: tergum brown, the lateral margins of the sclerites 

 yellow; hj^popygium reddish-yellow; sternum yellow, the sixth and 

 seventh segments more brownish. 



Habitat. — Holotype. — Male, Totonicipan, Guatemala, Central Amer- 

 ica (Eisen, coll.). 



Type. — In U. S. National Museum collection (No. 14940). 



? LIMNOPHIIA LUTEA Philippi. 



Poltjmoria lulea Philippi, Verb. Zool-bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 15, 1865, p. 609.— 

 Hu.VTER, Trans. Amer. Eiii. Soc, vol. 26. 1900. p. 290.— Kertesz, Cat. 

 Dipt., vol. 2, 1902, p. 198. 



Male. — Length, 10.7 mm; wing, 12-12.2 mm. 



Head: rostrum and palpi dark brown; antennae brown, the flagel- 

 lar segments rather brighter; front, vertex and occiput dark brown. 



Thorax: praescutum reddish-yellow with mdistinct reddish stripes 

 on either side of the middle line; scutum deep brownish-red; scu- 

 tellum reddish-j-eUow ; postnotum brown; pleura3 brown, the pro- 

 pleura; lighter, yellowish, llalteres, stem and knob light yellow. 



