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Abdomen with the tergites black, sternitcs black, the tips of the 

 apical sclerites broadly yellowish. 



Holotype, S , Callanga, Peru, in the Hungarian Xational 

 Museum. 



T. munda differs from all of the species known to me in the 

 great arcuation of the radial sector. 



Teucholabis paradoxa, sp. n. (PI. XVI, Fig. 8). 



Head reddish brown; thorax reddish, unspotted; wings subhyaline 

 with numerous brown spots and dots ; cross vein r-m not present. 



aMoIc. — Length, s mm.; wing, 6.6 mm. Female. — Length, 6 mm.; 

 wing, 6 mm. 



Male and Female. — Rostrum reddish, palpi brown ; antennae dark 

 brownish black throughout; front, vertex and occiput shining reddish 

 brown. 



Pronotum reddish. Mesonotum and pleurae reddish yellow without 

 dark markings. Halteres light brown throughout. 



Legs, coxs and trochanters brownish yellow, femora brownish yel- 

 low, the tip rather broadly dark brown, tibise brown darkest at the tip, 

 tarsi dark brown ; fore tibiae almost uniformly dark brown ; the dark 

 femoral apices subequal on all the legs. 



Wings, shiny, light yellowish hyaline, with numerous dark brown 

 spots and dots as follows : Cell C is brown except for a space near 

 cross vein li; Sc2 brown with a space over the middle of cell ist Ri. 

 Four large brown blotches, one at the base of the wing, a second at 

 the origin of Rs, a third near the stigma and the last at the end of R\ 

 in cell 2nd Ri. .'\nal angle of the wing dark, a large blotch in the 

 end of cell ist A ; smaller blotches at the ends of the longitudinal 

 veins; all of the cells of the wings with abundant rounded brown 

 dots. Venation (see Plate xvi, fig. 8) : Sc long, Rs rather long and 

 rather strongly arcuated so that cell R is narrowest at its middle; 

 cross vein r-m obliterated by the fusion ol R 4 plus 5 on M I plus 2 

 at the proximal end of cell \st A/2 ; cell i.f( M2 much lon.ger than the 

 veins issuing from it. 



Abdoriicn. base yellowish, in the female tergites 2 to 5 light brown 

 with dark apices; sternites brownish yellow; in the male, several of 

 the basal tergites yellow, the abdomen expanded before the hypopy- 

 gium, several segments being involved. 



?Iolotype, $ , Callanga, Peru. 

 Allotype, 9 , Callanga, Peru. 

 Types in the Hungarian National Museum. 

 The only species of Teucholabis that I know of with this 

 type of wing-pattern. The obliteration of the radio-median 



