52 Psyche [February 



cT. Length, 4. 8 mm.; wing, 4.6-4.8 mm.; rostrum, 3.7 mm. 

 Fore leg, femur, 3-3.25 mm.; tibia, 3.85-4 mm. 

 Middle leg, " 3.2-3.4 mm; tibia, 3.5-3.6 mm. 

 Hind leg, " 3.5-4 mm.; " 3.8 mm. 



9 . Length, G mm.; wing, 5.1 mm.; rostrum, 4.2 mm. 

 Fore leg, femur, 3.2 mm.; tibia, 4.1 mm. 

 Hind leg, " 3.5 mm.; "3.6 mm. 



Upper valve of $ o\'ipositor, 1.3 mm. 



Head: rostrum brown; antennte dark brownish-black, including the basal 

 segments. Front, vertex and occiput greyish, with two indistinct brown lines on 

 the sides of the vertex. 



Thorax: cervical sclerites dark brown; mesonotum, prsescutum, dark brown 

 darkest medially, paler, almost yellow, before the pseudosuture and along the 

 margins of the sclerite; in some, the median stripe is separated from the lateral by 

 paler; near the suture, with the appearance of two narrow, dark brown lines; 

 scutum, lobes dark brown, the depression between them greyish; scutellum and 

 post-notum brown with a sparse grey bloom. Pleurae dark brown with a sparse 

 greyish bloom, the extreme dorsal portions of the pleura; are darker, producing an 

 indistinct dorsal pleural stripe. Halteres brown, extreme base of stem rather 

 paler. Legs: coxaj and trochanters, brown; femora, tibiae and tarsi dark brown, 

 not darker at the tips. 



Wings: subhyaUnc, veins brown: Venation (See fig. g.) : Sc, ending opposite 

 the origin of Rs; deflection of Mi+i a little shorter than that segment of Mi+s be- 

 tween cross-veins r-m and m; basal deflection of Cui situated far before the fork 

 of M; basal approximation of Cu and 1st A rather extensive, about two-fifths the 

 length of ("u beyond the arculus. 



Abdomen: segments dark brown without distinct darker markings on the incis- 

 ures. Ovipositor of the 9 , upper valve, base not strong, the tip slender but rela- 

 tively short; lower valve, very broad, almost as wide as the base of the upper valve. 



Ilololype, c? Igarape-assu, Para, Brazil; Jan. 26, 1912 (H. S. Parish). Allo- 

 lype, 9, Igarape-assu, Para, Brazil, Feb. 1, 1912 (H. S. Parish). Paralype 1; 

 & Igarape-assu, Para, Brazil; Feb. 4, 1912 (H. S. Parish). Paralype 2; cf 

 Igarape-assu, Para, Brazil; Feb. 4, 1912 (H. S. Parish). 



Types in Cornell I'niversity, except paratype No. 2, in author's collection. 



Toxorrhina centralis sp. nov. 



Brown; antenna; uniform in color; abdomen with base and lip of each sclerite 

 dark; 9 ovipositor with long slender valves; basal approximation of Cu and 1st 

 A moderate. 



c? Ijcngth, C.6-7.2 mm.; wing, 6.2 mm.; rostrum, 5.1 mm. 



Fore leg, femur, 4.8 mm.; tibia, 5.3 mm. 

 9 Length, 7.2-8 mm.; ^Ning, 5.1-6.3 mm. 

 Middle leg, femur, 4.1 mm.; tibia, 4.6 mm. 

 Hind leg, femur, 3.8^.7 mm.; tibia, 4.2-4.5 mm. 

 Upper valve of 9 oWpositor, 2.0 mn\. 



